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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2019-05-26 19:32:46 +0300
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Building and Installing Emacs from the Repository
-Simply run 'make'. This should work if your files are freshly checked
-out from the repository, and if you have the proper tools installed.
-If it doesn't work, or if you have special build requirements, the
+The Emacs repository is hosted on Savannah. The following Git command
+will clone the repository to the 'emacs' subdirectory of the current
+directory on your local machine:
+
+ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git
+
+To build the repository code, simply run 'make' in the 'emacs'
+directory. This should work if your files are freshly checked out
+from the repository, and if you have the proper tools installed. If
+it doesn't work, or if you have special build requirements, the
following information may be helpful.
Building Emacs from the source-code repository requires some tools