[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/man/maintaining.texi, v [EMACS_22_BASE]

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/emacs
Module name:    emacs
Branch:         EMACS_22_BASE
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       07/05/06 17:49:20

Index: maintaining.texi
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/man/maintaining.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.49
retrieving revision 1.49.2.1
diff -u -b -r1.49 -r1.49.2.1
--- maintaining.texi    5 Feb 2007 21:49:34 -0000       1.49
+++ maintaining.texi    6 May 2007 17:49:19 -0000       1.49.2.1
@@ -410,6 +410,10 @@
 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
 will still refer to the same files even if you move it, as long as the