Subject: Re: bug#18252: grep's git repository differing from release tarball

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 07:52:13 -0700

Santiago wrote:
> It's just me or the grep git repository lacks a quite number of files.

This is explained in README-hacking.

> More exactly, the 2.20 release tarball and the 2.20 git tag (/tmp/grep) differ:

They don't differ for me.  Every file that's in both versions is identical.