Github user shijinkui commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3540
> I am a bit confused... I think there is no tools/flink* directory that
would need an exclusion...
When execute `tools/create_release_files.sh`, it will clone flink project
from apache. Also we had add `tools/flink*` in the .gitignore
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