Re: Source code, git and cvs

[uzibalqa]

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On Friday, July 21st, 2023 at 1:38 AM, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:


> uzibalqa uzibalqa@proton.me writes:
> 
> > What is the difference between
> > 
> > git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs.git
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > git clone -b master git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git
> 
> 
> The first command checks out the master branch of the Emacs repository
> over the HTTP protocol, while the other does so over the Git protocol.
> 
> git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git means exactly the same as
> git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs.git; it is simply a more concise version
> of the other repository path.
> 
> The difference between the two paths is of no relevance to prospective
> Emacs developers. All of this is spelt out clearly in CONTRIBUTE and
> countless other documents, such as the manual pages for `git clone'.
> 
> > And what is this exactly
> > 
> > cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:
> > /sources/emacs co emacs
> 
> 
> This is an obsolete method of obtaining a checkout of the in-development
> Emacs source code.

I wonder why you have INSTALL and INSTALL.REPO

Because if one gets the emacs source, wouldn't they want to build using 
instructions
from INSTALL.REPO rather than from INSTALL ?