Github user ahgittin commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-brooklyn/pull/874#discussion_r38525426
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docs/website/developers/committers/release-process/make-release-artifacts.md ---
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ To run the script:
It will show you the release information it has deduced, and ask yes-or-no
if it can proceed. Please note that the
script will thoroughly clean the Git workspace of all uncommited and
unadded files.
+**You really probably want to run this against a secondary checkout.** It
will wipe `.project` files and other IDE metadata, and bad things can happen if
an IDE tries to write while the script is running. Also as it takes a long
time, this means your workspace is not tied up. One quick and easy way to do
this is to `git clone` the local directory of your primary checkout to a
secondary location.
+
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Good idea
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