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[3 PATCHES] Whitespace cleanup : Replace code-alignment tabs with spaces.

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Message #29 received at 17012 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 17012 <17012 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: bug#17012: [3 PATCHES] Whitespace cleanup : Replace
 code-alignment tabs with spaces.
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:46:34 -0700

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com> wrote:
...
>> FYI, that is deliberate.
>> You can get it here, too:
>>
>>    http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/HACKING
>>
>> If you're hacking on coreutils (as with most pkgs), you should be doing
>> so via a git clone, with the very latest, not starting from a tarball,
>> which is almost always out of date by at least a few commits.
>
> That makes sense, but I'd think that the above sentence should be in the
> tarball in a fairly prominent location.  I see a reference to
> README-hacking and HACKING in the README file, but it's not clear that those
> are only available via git clone.

Just after the sentence in README that mentions those two other files,
you will find tips on reporting and fixing problems, including this:

    Here are instructions for checking out the latest development sources:

      http://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=coreutils

Or just google "coreutils hacking".

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