Publish next news: Added info where to get the template (copy an older news entry).

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/howto-news-month-of-the-hurd.mdwn b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/howto-news-month-of-the-hurd.mdwn
index 7aa70337..17e6b6cb 100644
--- a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/howto-news-month-of-the-hurd.mdwn
+++ b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/howto-news-month-of-the-hurd.mdwn
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ For practical work that means, we use the following commands:
 
         git fetch && git checkout -b master-news_next origin/master-news_next
 
-* get the latest version of news_next when you already created a local version
+* get the latest version of news_next when you already created a local version of the branch
 
         git fetch && git checkout master-news_next 
 
@@ -26,6 +26,15 @@ Always do check which branch you're on (asterisk in the first column of
 ``git branch'''s output), and only then begin to do your changes and
 commit them.
 
+* create a new news entry
+
+        cp news/yyyy-mm-dd.mdwn news/YYYY-MM-DD.mdwn
+        (edit the new file)
+        git add news/YYYY-MM-DD.mdwn
+        git commit -m "Begun the news entry for YYYY-MM-DD."
+
+(just copy the most recent news file)
+
 * check the outgoing changes
 
         git log --reverse -p -C origin/master-news_next..master-news_next