Re: Source code, git and cvs

[uzibalqa]

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On Friday, July 21st, 2023 at 2:23 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:


> > 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).

Can this detail be included in README ?  Because currently README only  
describes INSTALL.