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> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:01:17 -0500
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> > Sometimes it is necessary. I don’t know why but some changes to the
> > codebase have required ‘make bootstrap’ for as long as I’ve been
> > building Emacs. Usually a number of people post to emacs-dev asking
> > why they can’t build master any more.
> 
> In that case, I think it would be good to document this in INSTALL.

It already is documented, only in INSTALL.REPO, not INSTALL.  The
latter is for building a release tarball, where bootstrapping should
never be required.