[debbugs-tracker] bug#20003: closed (Confusing developer web pages for GNU Grep)

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> Confusing developer web pages for GNU Grep
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> Thu, 05 Mar 2015 06:56:38 +1030
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> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0
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> G'day,
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> I notice that there is a page, "Information for GNU grep developers", at
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>     http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/devel.html
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> This page is out of date in some areas (e.g. talks about "2.5.1a" as the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).
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> 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 identifies Git as the source control facility, but it also has out-of-date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):
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>     git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/grep.git
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> (Not "git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/grep.git".)
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> 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.
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> cheers,
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> sur-behoffski (Brenton Hoff)
> Programmer, Grouse Software
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> Sat, 07 Mar 2015 15:56:37 -0800
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> 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 This page is out of date in some areas (e.g. talks about "2.5.1a" as the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).
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> > 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):
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> >      git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/grep.git
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> > (Not "git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/grep.git".)
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> Thanks for reporting the above.  I installed what I hope fixes things.
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