Re: Spurious "file errors" when making master

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand why we invoke Git in this case: the
> source-directory is known and used by emacs-repository-get-version, so
> why cannot it do the same it does for an in-tree build, i.e. access
> the files in .git/ directly, just relative to source-directory?

Yes, that's how it works for me.  If I try the attached debugging patch, 'make' 
chatters as follows:

Loading leim/leim-list.el (source)...
emacs-repository--version-git-1 
/home/eggert/src/gnu/emacs/static-checking/.git/HEAD 
/home/eggert/src/gnu/emacs/static-checking/.git
emacs-repository--version-git-1 
/home/eggert/src/gnu/emacs/static-checking/.git/refs/heads/master 
/home/eggert/src/gnu/emacs/static-checking/.git
Finding pointers to doc strings...
Finding pointers to doc strings...done

which is what I'd expect: git does not get executed. Martin, can you investigate 
why git is executed in your case?

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