From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:49:02 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: ; * admin/make-tarball.txt: Advise to remove stale subdirectories.
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; * admin/make-tarball.txt: Advise to remove stale subdirectories.
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diff --git a/admin/make-tarball.txt b/admin/make-tarball.txt
index 907afbbf5a9..bf682ecadf6 100644
--- a/admin/make-tarball.txt
+++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ General steps (for each step, check for possible errors):
     or some form of "git clean -x".  It's probably simpler and safer to
     make a new working directory exclusively for the release branch.
 
+    If the working directory has subdirectories created when making
+    previous releases or pretests, remove those subdirectories, as the
+    command which updates the ChangeLog file might attempt to recurse
+    there and scan any ChangeLog.* files there.
+
     Make sure the tree is built, or at least configured.  That's
     because some of the commands below run Make, so they need
     Makefiles to be present.