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Re: users.txt patch

From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: users.txt patch
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:28:08 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) 
Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> Because the CVS mirror at cvs.sv.gnu.org is no longer maintained:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-09/msg00137.html

To help improve our advertisement of this, I disabled the CVS web
browsing and access visible from
<https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib>, by using the
administrative interface.  I also installed this change to
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/> (further proofreading welcome):

Index: gnulib.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/gnulib/gnulib/gnulib.html,v
retrieving revision 1.13
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -p -u -r1.13 -r1.16
--- gnulib.html 22 Oct 2007 21:41:43 -0000      1.13
+++ gnulib.html 23 Oct 2007 22:22:18 -0000      1.16
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <html>
-<!-- $Id: gnulib.html,v 1.13 2007/10/22 21:41:43 eggert Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: gnulib.html,v 1.16 2007/10/23 22:22:18 eggert Exp $ -->
 <head>
 <title>Gnulib - GNU Portability Library - GNU Project - Free Software 
Foundation (FSF)</title>
 <link REV="made" HREF="mailto:address@hidden";>
@@ -57,14 +57,20 @@ You can also view the <a href="MODULES.h
 anonymous <a href='http://git.or.cz/'>Git</a>, using the following
 shell command:</p>
 
-<pre><samp>git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git
+<pre><samp>git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib
 </samp></pre>
 
-<p>You can also retrieve the source code
-via <a href='http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/'>CVS</a> or via non-anonymous Git; for
-details, please see
-instructions on the <a
-href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib/";>gnulib project page</a>.</p>
+<p>GNU developers can also
+retrieve the source code via non-anonymous Git; for details, please
+see Gnulib's top-level <samp>README</samp> file.</p>
+
+<p>Historical versions of Gnulib are also available via CVS, but the
+old CVS repository is no longer being updated. You can also use CVS in
+a read-only way, to retrieve the latest version the Git repository,
+using a command like this:</p>
+
+<pre><samp>cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/gnulib.git co -d gnulib HEAD
+</samp></pre>
 
 <p>After you have the sources, run <tt>./gnulib-tool --help</tt>.  For
 help or more info, email
@@ -125,7 +131,7 @@ permitted in any medium, provided this n
 
 <p>Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2007/10/22 21:41:43 $
+$Date: 2007/10/23 22:22:18 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 
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