Re: [patch]gnu tar 1.19 canonicalize-lgpl_c.gdiff

[John E. Malmberg]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> "John E. Malmberg" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> If you're going to contribute much more, you'll have to fill out
> copyright assignment paperwork.  Also (assuming you continue) please
> provide ChangeLog entries as well as "git format-patch" style diffs,
> so it's easier to apply.  If you're not yet comfortable with git,
> I've begun a set of contributor guidelines for coreutils that is
> intended to help:
>
> http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=README-contribution-guidelines;hb=HEAD

Thanks for the link.

I just pulled it down and unpacked the tarball for git, but I expect it 
will take a while before I can get it working.

It looks like the fastest thing to do is set up a linux system and mount 
a VMS directory through NFS, but I will not be able to do that for about 
a month.

I really was not planning to tackle updating the coreutils to VMS at 
this time, I have been working on improving Perl on VMS, however I found 
my self needing a more current tar because of issues with Perl's 
handling of Tar archives.

I have written clearance from $DAYJOB to do this work, so there should 
be no problem with getting the paperwork going.

-John
address@hidden
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