From 7a0628d82eceb37ce3800a265cfc310945985fbd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glenn Morris Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 21:38:21 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] ; * admin/make-tarball.txt: Mention cleaning. --- admin/make-tarball.txt | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/admin/make-tarball.txt b/admin/make-tarball.txt index 0730b947a03..030ad4cee68 100644 --- a/admin/make-tarball.txt +++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Instructions to create pretest or release tarballs. -*- coding: utf-8 -*- Steps to take before starting on the first pretest in any release sequence: -0. The release branch (e.g. emacs-24) should already have been made +0. The release branch (e.g. emacs-25) should already have been made and you should use it for all that follows. Diffs from this branch should be going to the emacs-diffs mailing list. @@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ General steps (for each step, check for possible errors): 1. git pull # fetch from the repository git status # check for locally modified files + Ensure that you have a clean, unmodified state. + If you switched in-place from another branch to the release branch, + there could be inappropriate generated ignored files left over. + You might want to use "git status --ignored" to check for such files, + or some form of "git clean -x". It's probably simpler and safer to + make a new working directory exclusively for the release branch. + 2. Regenerate the etc/AUTHORS file: M-: (require 'authors) RET M-x authors RET -- 2.39.5