Re: Source code, git and cvs

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:09:44 +0000, uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me> said:

    uzibalqa> ------- Original Message -------
    uzibalqa> 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).

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

If you can read README, you can read INSTALL, which says, on line 11:

    For information about building from a Git checkout (rather than an
    Emacs release), read the INSTALL.REPO file first.

Robert
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