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diff --git a/man/maintaining.texi b/man/maintaining.texi index 52d404f8a08..ab98dccd350 100644 --- a/man/maintaining.texi +++ b/man/maintaining.texi @@ -410,6 +410,10 @@ files. If the tags file is in @file{/dev}, however, the file names are made relative to the current working directory. This is useful, for example, when writing the tags to @file{/dev/stdout}. + Notice that, in the usual case of using relative file names, you +should not use a symbolic link pointing to a tags file in a different +directory, because this would generally render the file names invalid. + If you specify absolute file names as arguments to @code{etags}, then the tags file will contain absolute file names. This way, the tags file will still refer to the same files even if you move it, as long as the |