>From 461cb9217d83c0518de2e9bb6fd3ee0d8cd0626b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Sat, 25 May 2019 18:29:16 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] * CONTRIBUTE: Split git configuration from fetch-and-build --- CONTRIBUTE | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE index a5433e30d3..f257fc57f0 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTE +++ b/CONTRIBUTE @@ -7,11 +7,14 @@ or run the shell command 'info "(emacs)Contributing"'.) ** The Emacs repository Emacs development uses Git on Savannah for its main repository. -Briefly, the following shell commands build and run Emacs from scratch: +To configure Git for Emacs development, you can run the following: git config --global user.name 'Your Name' git config --global user.email 'address@hidden' git config --global transfer.fsckObjects true + +The following shell commands then build and run Emacs from scratch: + git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git cd emacs ./autogen.sh -- 2.17.1