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diff --git a/Etc/zsh-development-guide b/Etc/zsh-development-guide index 37364e118..2ed75423b 100644 --- a/Etc/zsh-development-guide +++ b/Etc/zsh-development-guide @@ -931,18 +931,22 @@ freely available tools. To indicate which files should be distributed, each directory in the git tree includes a file .distfiles that sets any number of a set of Bourne shell (scalar) parameters. The value of the parameter is expanded as a -set of standard command line arguments. Basic globbing is allowed in the -values. +set of standard command line arguments. Apart from DISTFILES_NOT, which +must be an explicit list of files separated by whitespace, basic +globbing is allowed in the values. + +Because of the way DISTFILES_SRC is constructed it is only possible +to make a release from a git checkout. The following parameters are currently used: - DISTFILES_SRC is a list of files from the directory for the "src" - distribution. + distribution. However, if the file .distfiles is present in + a directory, all files known to git will be added to DISTFILES_SRC + except for files listed explicitly in DISTFILES_NOT. - DISTFILES_DOC is a list of files from the directory for the "doc" distribution. - DISTFILES_NOT is a list of files that will not be included in a - distribution, but that need to be present in the git tree. This - variable is not used by the zsh build process and is present for - the convenience of external checks. + distribution even though they are present in the git tree. |