Porting/release_managers_guide.pod: check the target before launching nukes

Suggest that people run "git status" *before* they go and nuke any
untracked files with "git clean -dxf".

This avoids mistakes where the release manager has accidentally left
an important but untracked file in the checked out directory. We have
built files we know about in in .gitignore, so the "git status" won't
be noisy unless it should be.

diff --git a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
index f66d4b1..0ea0ba4 100644 (file)
--- a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
+++ b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
@@ -445,8 +445,8 @@ If you make changes, be sure to commit them.
 Make sure you have a gitwise-clean perl directory (no modified files,
 unpushed commits etc):
 
-    $ git clean -dxf
     $ git status
+    $ git clean -dxf
 
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