The following patch consistently applies the practice of breaking
commands out on to a separate line for ease of
copy-and-pasting/triple-clicking/whatever.
>From a5065f237373a4e070ddf20fac450f6f5c4dae94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:16:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] README-release: make it easier to execute commands
* top/README-release: break commands out on to separate lines.
---
ChangeLog | 5 +++++
top/README-release | 12 ++++++++----
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 49c12ad..fa5e464 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-02-18 Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org>
+
+ README-release: make it easier to execute commands
+ * top/README-release: break commands out on to separate lines.
+
2012-02-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com>
GNUmakefile: simplify detection of unconfigured trees
diff --git a/top/README-release b/top/README-release
index 626777e..680547b 100644
--- a/top/README-release
+++ b/top/README-release
@@ -16,16 +16,20 @@ Here are most of the steps we (maintainers) follow when
making a release.
git checkout master; git diff
* Ensure that you've pushed all changes that belong in the release:
- "git push origin master".
+
+ git push origin master
* Check that the NixOS/Hydra autobuilder is reporting all is well:
http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/@PACKAGE@-master
-* Run "./bootstrap && ./configure". This downloads any new translations.
+* Run the following command to download any new translations:
+
+ ./bootstrap && ./configure
+
+* Pre-release testing: ensure that the following command succeeds:
-* Pre-release testing: ensure that "make check syntax-check distcheck"
- succeeds.
+ make check syntax-check distcheck
* Set the date, version number, and release type [stable/alpha/beta] on
line 3 of NEWS, commit that, and tag the release by running e.g.,
--
1.7.5.4
--
http://rrt.sc3d.org/
