Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Problem with Coreutils Contribution Guidelines

2012-10-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Nikolas Kallis wrote: > There is a problem with the Coreutils Contribution Guidelines: > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/HACKING This would be a great discussion to have on the coreutils project discussion list over at coreut...@gnu.org instead of here. This is the savannah

[Savannah-hackers-public] Problem with Coreutils Contribution Guidelines

2012-10-12 Thread Nikolas Kallis
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