From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Minor doc improvement in nt/INSTALL.W64 Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:41:41 +0300 Message-ID: <83twdbhmey.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8637lz44lu.fsf@realize.ch> <90f7882c-ec7d-fd71-cb87-b5c281f7e834@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1474304975 19180 195.159.176.226 (19 Sep 2016 17:09:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:09:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: a.s@realize.ch, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nikolay Kudryavtsev Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 19 19:09:31 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bm24D-0002nu-1a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:09:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56942 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bm24B-0003Gn-7x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 13:09:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39827) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bm1do-0006ao-Li for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:42:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bm1di-0008Uw-Lb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:41:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48338) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bm1di-0008US-IX; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:41:54 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1324 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bm1de-0005cE-M0; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:41:53 -0400 In-reply-to: <90f7882c-ec7d-fd71-cb87-b5c281f7e834@gmail.com> (message from Nikolay Kudryavtsev on Mon, 19 Sep 2016 04:47:27 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:207618 Archived-At: > From: Nikolay Kudryavtsev > Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 04:47:27 +0300 > > Hello. I'm not sure if the current procedure for this, as described in > INSTALL and INSTALL.W64, is optimal. > > I think you can just clone the repo and do: > > git config core.eol false > git config core.safecrlf false > git config core.autocrlf false > git rm --cached -r . > git reset --hard > > I tried repeating the issue, autogen.sh breaks on normal clone, this > fixes it like the current procedure, but this does not require cloning > again and does not touch the global git config. There are many different ways to cut a cake with Git. Problem is, not all of them work with all the versions of Git. Unless something is really wrong with the recipe in nt/INSTALL, I don't think it's a good idea to confuse the readers by presenting additional methods. This problem is supposed to be very rare anyway. Thanks.