Prerequisites
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-You will need the "git" version control tools.
-On Fedora-based systems, do "yum install git".
-On Debian-based ones install the "git-core" package.
-Then run "git --version". If that says it's older than
-version 1.4.4, then you'd do well to get a newer version.
+You will need the "git" version control tools. On Fedora-based
+systems, do "yum install git". On Debian-based ones install the
+"git-core" package. Then run "git --version". If that says it's
+older than version 1.4.4, then you'd do well to get a newer version.
At worst, just download the latest stable release from
https://git-scm.com/ and build from source.
-For details on building the programs in this package, see
-the file, README-hacking.
+For details on building the programs in this package, see the file,
+README-hacking.
Use the latest upstream sources
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-Base any changes you make on the latest upstream sources.
-You can get a copy of the latest with this command:
+Base any changes you make on the latest upstream sources. You can get
+a copy of the latest with this command:
git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/coreutils.git
cd coreutils