On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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 which is almost always out of date by at least a few commits.
>
> That makes sense, but I'd think that the above sentence should be in the
> tarball in a fairly prominent location. I see a reference to
> README-hacking and HACKING in the README file, but it's not clear that those
> are only available via git clone.
Just after the sentence in README that mentions those two other files,
you will find tips on reporting and fixing problems, including this:
Here are instructions for checking out the latest development sources:
http://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=coreutils
Or just google "coreutils hacking".
