Problem with Coreutils Contribution Guidelines

[Nikolas Kallis]

Hello,



There is a problem with the Coreutils Contribution Guidelines:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/HACKING


I got up to 'Your first commit: the quick and dirty way' and executed 
the command 'git format-patch --stdout -1 > DIFF', and got the error 
message "fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): 
.git".

It seems I got this error message because I executed the command from my 
home directory, and figured the command needed to be ran inside the 
coreutils/ directory.

Executing such a command is probably common knowledge for people whom 
use Git frequently, however this is only my second instance using it and 
so I didn't know.

The instructions should specify the command needs to be executed from 
the coreutils/ directory, or perhaps its a better idea to make the 
document specify to enter the coreutils/ directory first, as I suspect 
most - if not all commands in the instructions should generally be 
executed inside the coreutils/ directory.
This will help put the instructions in line with implementation.



Regards,

Nikolas Kallis