Re: Why does make run git?

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > But there are also .dir-locals.el files in the source tree. It seems
  > equally unmodular for building Emacs from sources to concern itself in
  > any way with how you edit those sources.

.dir-locals.el isn't related specifically to "building Emacs from
sources".  It applies to all editing of the checked-out Emacs sources
with Emacs.

Whether it is good or bad to have these .dir-locals.el files is
another issue and I see no need to discuss it now.  My point is only
that it is a not similar to the issue at hand, and not directly
pertinent.

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