master 7815629 1/2: ; * admin/notes/years: Mention that etags test files need to be updated.

[Eli Zaretskii]

branch: master
commit 78156292c5a8590fd2806b22b9ed21f764125ad2
Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>

    ; * admin/notes/years: Mention that etags test files need to be updated.
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 admin/notes/years | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/admin/notes/years b/admin/notes/years
index b56d94a..19c72c3 100644
--- a/admin/notes/years
+++ b/admin/notes/years
@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ rolls around, add that year to every FSF (and AIST) copyright 
notice.
 Do this by running the 'admin/update-copyright' script on a fresh repo
 checkout.  Inspect the results for plausibility, then commit them.
 
+You should also run the etags test suite in test/manual/etags/.  It
+will most probably fail because the contents of the test files changes
+due to copyright years update, so you need to move each ETAGS and
+CTAGS file produced by the test runs into the corresponding
+ETAGS.good* and CTAGS.good files, and then commit the new test files.
+
 There's no need to worry about whether an individual file has changed
 in a given year - it's sufficient that Emacs as a whole has changed.