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authorJim Meyering <meyering@fb.com>2017-01-14 09:30:31 -0800
committerJim Meyering <meyering@fb.com>2017-01-15 08:52:39 -0800
commit25c7c0db9b928fb596e526a49d0fe14af7ab2a38 (patch)
treeba3e6ff24cbb87cb722440c624ca48bbeb653707
parent0e9b51d179f869df49f0ad26388ad148be64e62e (diff)
downloadcoreutils-25c7c0db9b928fb596e526a49d0fe14af7ab2a38.tar.xz
maint: update README-hacking, now that vc-dwim accepts --init
* README-hacking: I've just released vc-dwim-1.8, so we can improve the documentation to reference its --initialize option here.
-rw-r--r--README-hacking5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking
index 6e4767f38..5fa812a9e 100644
--- a/README-hacking
+++ b/README-hacking
@@ -74,9 +74,8 @@ appropriate bug-reporting address as reported by the --help option of
each program. One way to do this is to use vc-dwim
<https://www.gnu.org/software/vc-dwim/>), as follows.
- Run the command "vc-dwim --help", copy its definition of the
- "git-changelog-symlink-init" function into your shell, and then run
- this function at the top-level directory of the package.
+ Run the command "vc-dwim --initialize" from the top-level directory
+ of this package's git-cloned hierarchy.
Edit the (empty) ChangeLog file that this command creates, creating a
properly-formatted entry according to the GNU coding standards