gnulib as a git submodule [Re: gplv3 files and updates

[Jim Meyering]

Brett Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
...
> If the solution has already been implemented and the problem this user
> stumbled upon is historical cruft, then that's great; I just wanted to
> check.

[Brett, this doesn't address the copyright issue.  I'm hoping
 the "License" section in README is sufficient for that. ]

FYI, I've thought about this, but still haven't done anything.  However,
I will probably not modify bootstrap after all.  Instead, I expect to
switch coreutils to a different approach altogether, using gnulib as a git
submodule. (requires git-1.5.3 or newer)  That will make it so any clone
of coreutils also includes a clone of gnulib, and will provide a cleaner
way of tying a specific gnulib snapshot to any given coreutils version.