# HG changeset patch # User Francesco Potort # Date 1178325381 0 # Node ID edb6a93b3b2b3a56f8611768797941ecb258089b # Parent 502b804290b5decdc37c55f759d1f3278bb4341e (Create Tags Table): Add text about the dangers of making symbolic links to tags files. diff -r 502b804290b5 -r edb6a93b3b2b man/maintaining.texi --- a/man/maintaining.texi Sat May 05 00:35:55 2007 +0000 +++ b/man/maintaining.texi Sat May 05 00:36:21 2007 +0000 @@ -410,6 +410,10 @@ made relative to the current working directory. This is useful, for example, when writing the tags to @file{/dev/stdout}. + Notice that, in the usual case of using relative file names, you +should not use a symbolic link pointing to a tags file in a different +directory, because this would generally render the file names invalid. + If you specify absolute file names as arguments to @code{etags}, then the tags file will contain absolute file names. This way, the tags file will still refer to the same files even if you move it, as long as the