From 216bd67a4f40a733cb139ace3af4616bc2702282 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:49:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ; * admin/make-tarball.txt: Advise to remove stale subdirectories. --- admin/make-tarball.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) 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. -- 2.39.2