Re: Source code, git and cvs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 13:58:25 +0000
> From: uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me>
> Cc: uzibalqa via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
>  <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> 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 ?

INSTALL is for building a release tarball.  INSTALL.REPO is for
building a clone of the repository.  They are different because some
files are present in the tarball, but not in the repository (they are
generated during the build from the repository).