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@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ HOW TO MAINTAIN COPYRIGHT YEARS FOR GNU EMACS
Maintaining copyright years is now very simple: every time a new year
rolls around, add that year to every FSF (and AIST) copyright notice.
Do this by running the 'admin/update-copyright' script on a fresh repo
-checkout. Inspect the results for plausibility, then commit them.
+checkout, redirecting its output to a file, so that you could later
+examine the files that don't have copyright notices. Inspect the
+results for plausibility, then commit them.
You should also run the etags test suite in test/manual/etags/. It
will most probably fail because the contents of the test files changes