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authorTarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com>2010-05-17 10:54:43 (GMT)
committerTarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com>2010-05-17 10:54:43 (GMT)
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upgraded distutils docs w.r.t. the manifest regeneration
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diff --git a/Doc/distutils/sourcedist.rst b/Doc/distutils/sourcedist.rst
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--- a/Doc/distutils/sourcedist.rst
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@@ -137,20 +137,12 @@ There are a couple of options that modify this behaviour. First, use the
:option:`--no-defaults` and :option:`--no-prune` to disable the standard
"include" and "exclude" sets.
-Second, you might want to force the manifest to be regenerated---for example, if
-you have added or removed files or directories that match an existing pattern in
-the manifest template, you should regenerate the manifest::
-
- python setup.py sdist --force-manifest
-
-Or, you might just want to (re)generate the manifest, but not create a source
-distribution::
+Second, you might just want to (re)generate the manifest, but not create a
+source distribution::
python setup.py sdist --manifest-only
-:option:`--manifest-only` implies :option:`--force-manifest`. :option:`-o` is a
-shortcut for :option:`--manifest-only`, and :option:`-f` for
-:option:`--force-manifest`.
+:option:`-o` is a sortcut for :option:`--manifest-only`.
.. _manifest_template: