view of the developers (and the autoconf script).
Note that the automatically generated autoconf files (such as config.h.in,
-stamp-h.in, and configure), are NOT kept in CVS. Thus, when you check out
-a CVS tree, you need to run the autogen.sh script before you can build
+stamp-h.in, and configure), are NOT kept in git. Thus, when you check out
+a git tree, you need to run the autogen.sh script before you can build
anything:
% ./autogen.sh
away completely.
+---
+git
+---
+
+As of December 2010, nmh has switched to using git for revision control
+instead of CVS. While the topic of git is beyond the scope of this FAQ,
+to get started with git & nmh, you can run the following command to checkout
+the nmh repository:
+
+ % git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/nmh.git
+
+
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