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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2007-10-24 09:13:59 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2007-10-24 09:13:59 +0200
commitffc29e91c4ed21ff0b134ec848589b9ae87c1ce6 (patch)
treef2a80612bdf2df4f1c3b62259363654f9fa1a491 /README-hacking
parentb924d0380eefddc4a6dd5b8521b91c3a4bc4527a (diff)
downloadcoreutils-ffc29e91c4ed21ff0b134ec848589b9ae87c1ce6.tar.gz
Doc improvements.
* README-hacking: Prefer the no-hyphen variant of git commands, e.g., use "git pull" not "git-pull". Don't presume that the only way to read this document is via a prior git clone: provide instructions for cloning coreutils, too. * README-hacking: Add "cd automake" in build instructions. From Bob Proulx.
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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if
Valgrind supports your architecture.
Only building the initial full source tree will be a bit painful.
-Later, a plain `git-pull && make' should be sufficient.
+Later, a plain `git pull && make' should be sufficient.
* LZMA
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ Automake on 2007-10-09 but is not yet available in a stable Automake
version. So until Automake 1.11 comes out, you'll need to get the
bleeding-edge Automake version with a command like this:
- $ cvs -d sources.redhat.com:/cvs/automake co automake
+ $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/automake
+ $ cd automake
$ ./bootstrap
$ ./configure
$ make install
@@ -52,9 +53,12 @@ and build and install that version.
* First GIT checkout
-Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to check out
-this package from GIT. The next step is to get other files needed to
-build, which are extracted from other source packages:
+You can get a copy of the source repository like this:
+
+ $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils
+
+The next step is to get other files needed to build, which are
+extracted from other source packages:
$ ./bootstrap
@@ -67,7 +71,7 @@ And there you are! Just
At this point, there should be no difference between your local copy,
and the GIT master copy:
- $ git-diff
+ $ git diff
should output no difference.