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* README-hacking: Update a la coreutils for git, etc.

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 These notes intend to help people working on the checked-out sources.
 These requirements do not apply when building from a distribution tarball.
+See also HACKING for more detailed contribution guidelines.
 
 * Requirements
 
 We've opted to keep only the highest-level sources in the GIT repository.
 This eases our maintenance burden, (fewer merges etc.), but imposes more
 requirements on anyone wishing to build from the just-checked-out sources.
-For example, you have to use the latest stable versions of the maintainer
-tools we depend upon, including:
-
-- Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
-- Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
-- Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
-- Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
-- M4 <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
-- Tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>
-- Wget <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>
+Note the requirements to build the released archive are much less and
+are just the requirements of the standard ./configure && make procedure.
+Specific development tools and versions will be checked for and listed by
+the bootstrap script.  See README-prereq for specific notes on obtaining
+these prerequisite tools.
 
 Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if
 Valgrind supports your architecture.
 
-Only building the initial full source tree will be a bit painful.
-Later, a plain `cvs update -dP && make' should be sufficient.
+While building from a just-cloned source tree may require installing a
+few prerequisites, later, a plain `git pull && make' should be sufficient.
+
+* First GIT checkout
+
+You can get a copy of the source repository like this:
+
+        $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/diffutils
+        $ cd diffutils
 
-* First checkout
+As an optional step, if you already have a copy of the gnulib git
+repository on your hard drive, then you can use it as a reference to
+reduce download time and disk space requirements:
 
-Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to check out
-this package from CVS.  The next step is to get other files needed to
-build, which are extracted from other source packages:
+        $ export GNULIB_SRCDIR=/path/to/gnulib
 
-	$ ./bootstrap
+The next step is to get and check other files needed to build,
+which are extracted from other source packages:
+
+        $ ./bootstrap
+
+To use the most-recent gnulib (as opposed to the gnulib version that
+the package last synchronized to), do this next:
+
+        $ git submodule foreach git pull origin master
+        $ git commit -m 'build: update gnulib submodule to latest' gnulib
 
 And there you are!  Just
 
-	$ ./configure
-	$ make
-	$ make check
+        $ ./configure --quiet #[--enable-gcc-warnings] [*]
+        $ make
+        $ make check
 
 At this point, there should be no difference between your local copy,
-and the master:
+and the GIT master copy:
 
-	$ cvs diff -pu
+        $ git diff
 
 should output no difference.
 
 Enjoy!
 
+[*] The --enable-gcc-warnings option is useful only with glibc
+and with a very recent version of gcc.  You'll probably also have
+to use recent system headers.  If you configure with this option,
+and spot a problem, please be sure to send the report to the bug
+reporting address of this package, and not to that of gnulib, even
+if the problem seems to originate in a gnulib-provided file.
+
+* Submitting patches
+
+If you develop a fix or a new feature, please send it to the
+appropriate bug-reporting address as reported by the --help option of
+each program.  One way to do this is to use vc-dwim
+<http://www.gnu.org/software/vc-dwim/>), as follows.
+
+  Run the command "vc-dwim --help", copy its definition of the
+  "git-changelog-symlink-init" function into your shell, and then run
+  this function at the top-level directory of the package.
+
+  Edit the (empty) ChangeLog file that this command creates, creating a
+  properly-formatted entry according to the GNU coding standards
+  <http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs.html>.
+
+  Make your changes.
+
+  Run the command "vc-dwim" and make sure its output (the diff of all
+  your changes) looks good.
+
+  Run "vc-dwim --commit".
+
+  Run the command "git format-patch --stdout -1", and email its output
+  in, using the output's subject line.
+
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