[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Documentation switch imminent

[Brett Cannon]

On 8/15/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > Okay, I made the switch.  I tagged the state of both Python branches
> > before the switch as tags/py{26,3k}-before-rstdocs/.
>
> Update instructions:
>
> 1. svn diff Doc; any pending changes will need to be redone
> 2. svn up; this will remove the tex sources, and then likely
>    fail if there were still other files present in Doc, e.g.
>    from building the documentation
> 3. review any files left in Doc
> 4. rm -rf Doc
> 5. svn up
>
> If you are certain there is nothing of interest in your sandbox
> copy of Doc, you can start with step 4.

Why the 'rm' call?  When I did ``svn update`` it deleted the files for
me.  Is this to ditch some metadata?

-Brett