From bbca79d92eee66e91ee438a2aca4c1c40f78ab54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shubham Padia <shubham@zulip.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2025 06:15:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] help: Include dist in release tarball and exclude source
 code.

We don't include starlight_help/dist_no_relative_links since that is
only useful for zulip.com and zulip.com doesn't use tarballs for
deployment.
---
 tools/build-release-tarball       | 4 +++-
 tools/release-tarball-exclude.txt | 1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/build-release-tarball b/tools/build-release-tarball
index a74568ec6d..9f011a3abd 100755
--- a/tools/build-release-tarball
+++ b/tools/build-release-tarball
@@ -109,7 +109,9 @@ echo "$version" >version
 
 cd "$OUTPUT_DIR"
 
-tar --append -f "$TARBALL" "$prefix/prod-static" "$prefix/build_id" "$prefix/version" "$prefix/zulip-git-version" "$prefix/locale" "$prefix/staticfiles.json" "$prefix/webpack-stats-production.json"
+# We don't include starlight_help/dist_no_relative_links since that is only useful for zulip.com
+# and zulip.com doesn't use tarballs for deployment.
+tar --append -f "$TARBALL" "$prefix/prod-static" "$prefix/build_id" "$prefix/version" "$prefix/zulip-git-version" "$prefix/locale" "$prefix/staticfiles.json" "$prefix/webpack-stats-production.json" "$prefix/starlight_help/dist"
 
 rm -rf "$prefix"
 
diff --git a/tools/release-tarball-exclude.txt b/tools/release-tarball-exclude.txt
index 9acd9cf08e..bc49998d3c 100644
--- a/tools/release-tarball-exclude.txt
+++ b/tools/release-tarball-exclude.txt
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ puppet/kandra
 zproject/dev_settings.py
 zproject/test_settings.py
 zerver/tests
+starlight_help/