doc: Improvements for gnulib git bundle.

* doc/gnulib-git-bundle.texi: Explain how to verify the checksums.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2026-01-09  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+       doc: Improvements for gnulib git bundle.
+       * doc/gnulib-git-bundle.texi: Explain how to verify the checksums.
+
 2026-01-09  Simon Josefsson  <simon@josefsson.org>
 
        doc: Improvements for gnulib git bundle.

diff --git a/doc/gnulib-git-bundle.texi b/doc/gnulib-git-bundle.texi
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--- a/doc/gnulib-git-bundle.texi
+++ b/doc/gnulib-git-bundle.texi
@@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ c3X/89WHMIRVqGpOHHQPZfw2bcxnZEIkgOam7WwRUyw=  gnulib-20250729.bundle
 6kYv60oHv7kXpkJM2vUlADWNmh62nus1xA80bJJiJEs=  gnulib-20260109.bundle
 @end example
 
+Verify the SHA256 checksum
+with either @code{sha256sum}, @code{sha256}, or @code{shasum -a 256}.
+
+Verify the base64 SHA3-256 checksum
+with @code{cksum -a sha3 -l 256 --base64} from coreutils 9.8 or newer,
+or with @code{cksum -a sha3 --check} from coreutils 9.9 or newer.
+
 Next to the Git Bundle is a GnuPG signature on the file, named
 @code{gnulib-YYYYMMDD.bundle.sig}, which can be verified using GnuPG
 as usual: