Re: [PATCH v6] gzip: add "--keep" option to keep (don't delete) input files

[Jim Meyering]

Rodrigo Campos wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 10:53:31PM -0300, Rodrigo Campos wrote:
>> By default it is disabled to keep everything working as before. And as a
>> short option "-k" is used to be consistent with lzip, bzip2 and friends.
>> * doc/gzip.texi: Document "--keep" option.
>> * gzip.1: Likewise.
>> * gunzip.in: Likewise.
>> * NEWS: Likewise.
>> * gzip.c: Add support for "--keep".
>> ---
>>  NEWS          |    2 ++
>>  doc/gzip.texi |    5 +++++
>>  gunzip.in     |    1 +
>>  gzip.1        |    9 ++++++---
>>  gzip.c        |   35 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>>  5 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> Ping ?
>
> Look at the patch with "git show -w", as it will be more clear what the patch
> does.
>
> Also, please keep me in "Cc:" since I'm not on the list.

Thanks for your patience.
I'd like to make a release in the next few weeks,
and it'd be good to include this.

Your contribution is large enough that it requires
copyright paperwork.  Here are pointers:

  http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/HACKING#n470

Can you do that?

Also, any new feature like this should be accompanied by an
addition to the test suite that exercises it.  Would you like
to write that?