# HG changeset patch
# User Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
# Date 1233718924 0
# Node ID fae9e26f50479f074b1db2d147bb0e13e97ebe1c
# Parent  e3ef741fe4892e5a5d4b2ebcb4af84e2587d4bc8
Add some stuff on checking first pretest tarball of a major release.

diff -r e3ef741fe489 -r fae9e26f5047 admin/make-tarball.txt
--- a/admin/make-tarball.txt	Wed Feb 04 03:41:06 2009 +0000
+++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt	Wed Feb 04 03:42:04 2009 +0000
@@ -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