Re: Why does make run git?

[Richard Stallman]

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  > This stuff is run just once, the first time you build.  In some sense
  > you are doing more than just building Emacs from its sources: your
  > are cloning the Emacs repository; some configuration of this repository
  > might be expected.

I'm not sure concretely what "might be expected" means here.
How do other programs configure git?

The question is not whether these configurations are good ones,
but rather how properly to install them.

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