On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: ... >> For the record, I think that such comments should be made unnecessary. >> I.e., maintain coding standards with enough automated infrastructure >> that that type of crutch is not required. See the guidelines in >> coreutils' >> HACKING file. Speaking of which, grep's HACKING needs a refresher. > > Interesting. Looking at the coreutils-8.22 tarball, there is no HACKING > file. It's not in the coreutils-8.17 tarball either. It is in the git tree > though.
FYI, that is deliberate. You can get it here, too: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/HACKING If you're hacking on coreutils (as with most pkgs), you should be doing so via a git clone, with the very latest, not starting from a tarball, which is almost always out of date by at least a few commits.
