Re: Bootstrap deleted DOC-nnn file

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: chad <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 15:33:00 -0700
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> 
> There is a big problem with that approach, though: only the executable
> and the DOC files are versioned. The elisp libraries would immediately
> out of sync, and since most of the changes are to lisp files, the
> old binary+DOC was of very limited usefulness.

It is useful if you can reproduce something starting with "emacs -Q".
Loading Lisp files is never a problem, even if they are in a different
directory.

Also, you seem to be thinking about building from the source tree
which is your local branch that tracks the master.  But that is only
one use case.  If you are working on a local branch, or in general in
a tree whose Lisp files don't change much, the problem you mention
doesn't happen at all.