From 834431a796b487c12f3924f685118c23a973ede0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Kleeschulte <chrisk@bitpay.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:12:01 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Added a note about the npm publish behavior.

---
 RELEASE.md | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
index e4aa86c0..ab45502d 100644
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -24,12 +24,14 @@ Ensure you've followed the instructions in the README.md for building the projec
 
 ```json
 {
-  "region": "us-east-1",
+  "region": "us-west-2",
   "accessKeyId": "xxx",
   "secretAccessKey": "yyy"
 }
 ```
 
+When publishing to npm, the .gitignore file is used to exclude files from the npm publishing process. Be sure that the bitcore-node directory has only the directories and files that you would like to publish to npm. You might need to run the commands below on each platform that you intend to publish (e.g. Mac and Linux).
+
 To make a release, bump the version of the package.json:
 
 ```bash