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

[Jim Meyering]

"John E. Malmberg" <address@hidden> wrote:
...
> 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.

Oh.  If building git is not easy, don't sweat it.
As you've noticed, we don't reject regular diffs.

> I really was not planning to tackle updating the coreutils to VMS at

Coreutils isn't really involved.  It's just where I first wrote
the guidelines.  Many of those guidelines apply to gnulib, too.

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

Good!