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bug#17012: [3 PATCHES] Whitespace cleanup : Replace code-alignment tabs
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
bug#17012: [3 PATCHES] Whitespace cleanup : Replace code-alignment tabs with spaces. |
Date: |
Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:46:34 -0700 |
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Bruce Dubbs <address@hidden> wrote:
...
>> 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 which is almost always out of date by at least a few commits.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".
- bug#17012: [3 PATCHES] Whitespace cleanup : Replace code-alignment tabs with spaces., behoffski, 2014/03/14
- bug#17012: [3 PATCHES] Whitespace cleanup : Replace code-alignment tabs with spaces., Paul Eggert, 2014/03/14
- bug#17012: [3 PATCHES] Whitespace cleanup : Replace code-alignment tabs with spaces., Jim Meyering, 2014/03/14
- bug#17012: [3 PATCHES] Whitespace cleanup : Replace code-alignment tabs with spaces., Bruce Dubbs, 2014/03/14
- bug#17012: [3 PATCHES] Whitespace cleanup : Replace code-alignment tabs with spaces., Jim Meyering, 2014/03/15
- bug#17012: [3 PATCHES] Whitespace cleanup : Replace code-alignment tabs with spaces., Bruce Dubbs, 2014/03/15
- bug#17012: [3 PATCHES] Whitespace cleanup : Replace code-alignment tabs with spaces., Jim Meyering, 2014/03/15
- bug#17012: [3 PATCHES] Whitespace cleanup : Replace code-alignment tabs with spaces., Bruce Dubbs, 2014/03/15
- bug#17012: [3 PATCHES] Whitespace cleanup : Replace code-alignment tabs with spaces.,
Jim Meyering <=
- bug#17012: [3 PATCHES] Whitespace cleanup : Replace code-alignment tabs with spaces., Johannes Meixner, 2014/03/18
- bug#17012: [3 PATCHES] Whitespace cleanup : Replace code-alignment tabs with spaces., Jim Meyering, 2014/03/18