[Python-checkins] devguide: Issue #23404: Add a note to clarify that "make touch" only works with a hg

[berker.peksag]

https://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/ffbb19026599
changeset:   754:ffbb19026599
user:        Berker Peksag <berker.peksag at gmail.com>
date:        Wed Jul 29 16:58:08 2015 +0300
summary:
  Issue #23404: Add a note to clarify that "make touch" only works with a hg clone.

Patch by Carol Willing.

files:
  setup.rst |  3 ++-
  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


diff --git a/setup.rst b/setup.rst
--- a/setup.rst
+++ b/setup.rst
@@ -308,7 +308,8 @@
 To overcome this problem, auto-generated files are also checked into the
 Mercurial repository. So if you don't touch the auto-generation scripts, there's
 no real need to auto-generate anything. However, as Mercurial doesn't preserve
-timestamps well, a special build target ``touch`` was added. Run::
+timestamps well, a special build target ``touch`` was added (the ``touch``
+build target is not designed for git clones and does not support them). Run::
 
     make touch
 

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Repository URL: https://hg.python.org/devguide