SF patch 959726: sdist versus SVN
The disutils sdist command now ignores .svn directories.
diff --git a/Doc/dist/dist.tex b/Doc/dist/dist.tex
index da9341e..7b91809 100644
--- a/Doc/dist/dist.tex
+++ b/Doc/dist/dist.tex
@@ -1066,7 +1066,7 @@
be included in the source distribution:
\begin{itemize}
\item all files in the Distutils ``build'' tree (default \file{build/})
-\item all files in directories named \file{RCS} or \file{CVS}
+\item all files in directories named \file{RCS}, \file{CVS} or \file{.svn}
\end{itemize}
Now we have our complete list of files, which is written to the manifest
for future reference, and then used to build the source distribution
@@ -1098,8 +1098,8 @@
included by the previous two steps, so it's important that the
\code{prune} command in the manifest template comes after the
\code{recursive-include} command
-\item exclude the entire \file{build} tree, and any \file{RCS} or
- \file{CVS} directories
+\item exclude the entire \file{build} tree, and any \file{RCS},
+ \file{CVS} and \file{.svn} directories
\end{enumerate}
Just like in the setup script, file and directory names in the manifest
template should always be slash-separated; the Distutils will take care