Re: Why does make run git?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:58:27 -0400
> 
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:52:30 -0700 Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote: 
> 
> PE> Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> >> perhaps CONTRIBUTE
> >> and INSTALL should mention how to compile and run Emacs without running
> >> Git or expecting a .git/hooks directory?
> 
> PE> Those files already attempt to do that. In what sense do they fall short? 
> What
> PE> wording needs to be changed?
> 
> I guess INSTALL doesn't deal with autogen.sh so it doesn't need changes.

INSTALL is not relevant to building Emacs out of a Git checkout.  The
file you should be looking at is INSTALL.REPO.