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Confusing developer web pages for GNU Grep

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: sur-behoffski <sur_behoffski <at> grouse.com.au>
To: "bug-grep <at> gnu.org" <bug-grep <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Confusing developer web pages for GNU Grep
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 06:56:38 +1030

G'day,

I notice that there is a page, "Information for GNU grep developers", at

    http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/devel.html

This page is out of date in some areas (e.g. talks about "2.5.1a" as the
latest stable release, and describes CVS as the source control program,
not Git).

You can reach this page from the GNU Grep project home page -- it's in the
"Getting involved->Development" section.  The project home page correctly
identifies Git as the source control facility, but it also has out-of-date
information about how to clone GNU Grep... the instructions should be (for
the "Anonymous clone" example):

    git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/grep.git

(Not "git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/grep.git".)

I stumbled across these inconsistencies while trying to start a clean-slate
look at Git-versus-release-tarball versions on a different machine, as
suggested by Paul yesterday.

cheers,

sur-behoffski (Brenton Hoff)
Programmer, Grouse Software

Message #10 received at 20003-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: sur-behoffski <sur_behoffski <at> grouse.com.au>, 
 20003-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20003: Confusing developer web pages for GNU Grep
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 15:56:37 -0800

sur-behoffski wrote:
> This page is out of date in some areas (e.g. talks about "2.5.1a" as the
> latest stable release, and describes CVS as the source control program,
> not Git).
>
> You can reach this page from the GNU Grep project home page -- it's in the
> "Getting involved->Development" section.  The project home page correctly
> identifies Git as the source control facility, but it also has out-of-date
> information about how to clone GNU Grep... the instructions should be (for
> the "Anonymous clone" example):
>
>      git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/grep.git
>
> (Not "git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/grep.git".)

Thanks for reporting the above.  I installed what I hope fixes things.

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