README-alpha

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The development source code is available via Git from Savannah: see
<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git>.  The main project page is at
<https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/grep/>.

The source code in the Git uses autotools to generate some files. Before
following the instructions in the INSTALL file for compiling grep, you
need to run the bootstrap script.

Please submit bug reports to <bug-grep@gnu.org>.

If you are interested in the development of GNU grep, you may want to
subscribe to the development mailing list.  To subscribe, send an email
message to <bug-grep-request@gnu.org> with "subscribe" (without the
quotation marks) in the subject header field (or in the body) of the
email, or visit <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grep>.

To follow development more closely, there is also the grep-commit mailing
list to which log entries (one per commit) and diff output (one per
modified file) from CVS are automatically sent.  To subscribe, send an
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A web page containing information for GNU grep developers is at
<https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/devel.html>.