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changeset 80856:edb6a93b3b2b
(Create Tags Table): Add text about the dangers of
making symbolic links to tags files.
| author | Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sat, 05 May 2007 00:36:21 +0000 |
| parents | 502b804290b5 |
| children | b8d11546ac61 |
| files | man/maintaining.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- 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