From a5e20a975cbae982e5f8fd3960fd9b0680b9e5d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wojciech Tyczynski <wojtekt@google.com>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 17:41:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update instructions on conversions.

---
 api_changes.md | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/api_changes.md b/api_changes.md
index 4627c6dfd..17278c6ef 100644
--- a/api_changes.md
+++ b/api_changes.md
@@ -254,6 +254,12 @@ regenerate auto-generated ones. To regenerate them:
    $ hack/update-generated-conversions.sh
 ```
 
+If running the above script is impossible due to compile errors, the easiest
+workaround is to comment out the code causing errors and let the script to
+regenerate it. If the auto-generated conversion methods are not used by the
+manually-written ones, it's fine to just remove the whole file and let the
+generator to create it from scratch.
+
 Unsurprisingly, adding manually written conversion also requires you to add tests to
 `pkg/api/<version>/conversion_test.go`.