Re: the release of grep-2.9 is imminent

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering wrote:
...
>>   $ git diff
>>   diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
>>   index 04320a6..818afc1 100644
>>   --- a/.gitignore
>>   +++ b/.gitignore
>>   @@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
>>   -!/gnulib-tests/Makefile.am
>>   -!/lib/Makefile.am
>>   -!/lib/savedir.c
>>   -!/lib/savedir.h
>>   -!/m4/djgpp.m4
>>    *.a
>>    *.exe
>>    *.o
>>   @@ -58,3 +53,8 @@ ChangeLog
>>    Makefile
>>    Makefile.in
>>    TAGS
>>   +!/gnulib-tests/Makefile.am
>>   +!/lib/Makefile.am
>>   +!/lib/savedir.c
>>   +!/lib/savedir.h
>>   +!/m4/djgpp.m4
>
> Thank you for the report.
> I've noticed that, too, though only the insertion of newline-at-EOF in
> each .gitignore file.  I've Cc'd bug-gnulib, since gnulib-tool appears
> to be doing it.
>
> I notice that some of your differences appear to be due to sorting
> with a different locale than I use.  That implies there's a second
> problem: perhaps one of gnulib-tool's uses of sort is not prefixed
> with LC_ALL=C.

For the record, I *do* see all of those diffs, not just the
blank-line-at-EOF ones, so there's only one problem.