[Emacs-diffs] emacs/admin make-tarball.txt

[Glenn Morris]

CVSROOT:        /sources/emacs
Module name:    emacs
Changes by:     Glenn Morris <gm>       09/02/04 03:42:04

Modified files:
        admin          : make-tarball.txt 

Log message:
        Add some stuff on checking first pretest tarball of a major release.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/emacs/admin/make-tarball.txt?cvsroot=emacs&r1=1.28&r2=1.29

Patches:
Index: make-tarball.txt
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RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/admin/make-tarball.txt,v
retrieving revision 1.28
retrieving revision 1.29
diff -u -b -r1.28 -r1.29
--- make-tarball.txt    3 Feb 2009 04:04:15 -0000       1.28
+++ make-tarball.txt    4 Feb 2009 03:42:04 -0000       1.29
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@
     tarballs are kept under fencepost.gnu.org:~pot/emacs-pretest/, while
     old emacs tarballs are at <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/>.
 
+    If this is the first pretest of a major release, just comparing
+    with the previous release may overlook many new files.  You can try
+    something like `find -f | grep -v CVS...etc' in a clean CVS tree,
+    and compare the results against the new tar contents.
+
 8.   xdelta delta emacs-OLD.tar.gz emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta
 
 9.   tar -zxf emacs-NEW.tar.gz; cd emacs-NEW