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changeset 77656:e0c0a6271f90
(Create Tags Table): Add text about the dangers of
making symbolic links to tags files. (Clarified by RMS.)
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sun, 06 May 2007 17:49:19 +0000 |
| parents | 61d6d08c1ecf |
| children | 6215cae6109e |
| files | man/maintaining.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/maintaining.texi Sun May 06 17:44:41 2007 +0000 +++ b/man/maintaining.texi Sun May 06 17:49:19 2007 +0000 @@ -409,6 +409,10 @@ files. If the tags file is in @file{/dev}, however, the file names are made relative to the current working directory. This is useful, for example, when writing the tags to @file{/dev/stdout}. + + When using a a relative file name, it should not be 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