Re: Why does make run git?

[Paul Eggert]

Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> I think CONTRIBUTE should mention, right after saying to run autogen.sh,
> that the above requires Git to be installed.

autogen.sh is not supposed to require Git, so let's fix autogen.sh instead.


> 'build-aux/git-hooks/commit-msg' -> '.git/hooks/commit-msg'
> cp: cannot create regular file '.git/hooks/commit-msg': No such file or 
> directory
> ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1
> #+end_src
>
> So it looks like it assumes that `.git/hooks' exists. I don't know why
> that's not true in the GitLab checkout.

I don't know why either. I wonder what other compatibility mines remain 
unexploded in the GitLab field? Anyway, I installed the attached, which should 
work around this particular problem without having to complicate the 
configuration instructions.

0001-Do-not-assume-regular-Git-.git-hooks-dir.txt
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