From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2022 06:48:15 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: ; * admin/make-tarball.txt: Fix last change.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-28.2~67
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7ff60c62a9;p=emacs.git

; * admin/make-tarball.txt: Fix last change.
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diff --git a/admin/make-tarball.txt b/admin/make-tarball.txt
index f5b9d56c4d4..a60fead2678 100644
--- a/admin/make-tarball.txt
+++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt
@@ -185,10 +185,11 @@ General steps (for each step, check for possible errors):
 
      ./admin/diff-tar-files emacs-OLD.tar emacs-NEW.tar
 
-    Alternatively:
+    Alternatively, if you want to use the compressed tarballs (which
+    diff-tar-files doesn't understand):
 
-     tar tf emacs-OLD.tar | sed -e 's,^[^/]*,,' | sort > old_tmp
-     tar tf emacs-NEW.tar | sed -e 's,^[^/]*,,' | sort > new_tmp
+     tar tJf emacs-OLD.tar.xz | sed -e 's,^[^/]*,,' | sort > old_tmp
+     tar tJf emacs-NEW.tar.xz | sed -e 's,^[^/]*,,' | sort > new_tmp
      diff -u old_tmp new_tmp
 
     If this is the first pretest of a major release, just comparing