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constitute a package. Manifest files are traditionally called
"C<MANIFEST>" and reside in the top level directory of the package.

Although there is no formal standard for the contents of manifest
files, B<makepatch> uses the following rules:

=over 4

=item *

If the second line from the manifest file looks like a separator line
(e.g. it is empty, or contains only dashes), it is discarded and so is
the first line.

=item *

Empty lines and lines that start with a C<#> are ignored.

=item *

If there are multiple space-separated "words" on a line, the first
word is considered to be the filename.

=back

=head2 Default treatment

By default, B<makepatch> looks for files named "C<MANIFEST>" in the
top level directories of the old and the new source trees. If these
files (or one of them) are found, they are used.
If no manifest file could be found, the package is assumed to consist
of all files in the directory.

The default name of the default manifest file can be modified with the
command line option "C<-automanifest>", see Section L<Command line
options>.

=head2 Explicitly naming of manifest files