Hello,
There is a problem with the Coreutils Contribution Guidelines:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/HACKING
I got up to 'Your first commit: the quick and dirty way' and executed
the command 'git format-patch --stdout -1 > DIFF', and got the error
message "fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories):
.git".
It seems I got this error message because I executed the command from my
home directory, and figured the command needed to be ran inside the
coreutils/ directory.
Executing such a command is probably common knowledge for people whom
use Git frequently, however this is only my second instance using it and
so I didn't know.
The instructions should specify the command needs to be executed from
the coreutils/ directory, or perhaps its a better idea to make the
document specify to enter the coreutils/ directory first, as I suspect
most - if not all commands in the instructions should generally be
executed inside the coreutils/ directory.
This will help put the instructions in line with implementation.
Regards,
Nikolas Kallis
