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-rw-r--r--ChangeLog7
-rw-r--r--README5
-rw-r--r--THANKS1
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6a30666f1..2be3fd8c2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2007-06-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
+
+ * README: Mention README-hacking, for whose who start from
+ cloned/checked-out sources rather than from a distribution tarball.
+ Reported by Steve Ward.
+ * THANKS: Add Steve Ward.
+
2007-06-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
bug-fix: cp would fail to write through a dangling symlink
diff --git a/README b/README
index 62853c22a..0d6e46df2 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -18,7 +18,10 @@ The programs that can be built with this package are:
See the file NEWS for a list of major changes in the current release.
-See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
+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.
These programs are intended to conform to POSIX (with BSD and other
extensions), like the rest of the GNU system. By default they conform
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 7d9c52752..e35b9fd5e 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -467,6 +467,7 @@ Stephen Gildea gildea@stop.mail-abuse.org
Stephen Smoogen smooge@mindspring.com
Steve McConnel steve@acadcomp.sil.org
Steve McIntyre steve@einval.com
+Steve Ward planet36@gmail.com
Steven G. Johnson stevenj@alum.mit.edu
Steven Mocking ufo@quicknet.nl
Steven P Watson steven@magelico.net