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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-01-23 00:18:24 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-01-23 00:18:24 +0100
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downloadcoreutils-3b9b0c5c161e4df0d0b64128241c2d924f70858b.tar.xz
* README: Remove/convert a few stray mentions of CVS.
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@@ -18,10 +18,9 @@ The programs that can be built with this package are:
See the file NEWS for a list of major changes in the current release.
-If you obtained this file as part of a "cvs checkout" or "git clone",
-then see the README-hacking file. If this file came to you as part of a
-tar archive, then see the file INSTALL for compilation and installation
-instructions.
+If you obtained this file as part of a "git clone", then see the
+README-hacking file. If this file came to you as part of a tar archive,
+then see the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
These programs are intended to conform to POSIX (with BSD and other
extensions), like the rest of the GNU system. By default they conform
@@ -185,14 +184,13 @@ If you sent a complete patch and, after a couple weeks you haven't
received any acknowledgement, please ping us. A complete patch includes
a well-written ChangeLog entry, unified (diff -u format) diffs relative
to the most recent test release (or, better, relative to the latest
-sources in the CVS repository), an explanation for why the patch is
+sources in the public repository), an explanation for why the patch is
necessary or useful, and if at all possible, enough information to
reproduce whatever problem prompted it. Plus, you'll earn lots of
karma if you include a test case to exercise any bug(s) you fix.
-Instructions for checking out the latest source via CVS are here:
-
- http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=coreutils
+Here are instructions for checking out the latest development sources:
+ http://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=coreutils
If your patch adds a new feature, please try to get some sort of consensus
that it is a worthwhile change. One way to do that is to send mail to