Re: Why does make run git?

[Paul Eggert]

On 08/02/2017 11:31 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > To help improve the situation I propose the attached patch, which
> > reverts the default ./autogen.sh behavior to be './autogen.sh all', the
> > way it used to be (briefly). Developers who want autogen.sh to leave
> > their Git settings alone can continue to use './autogen.sh autoconf'.
> AFAIU, doing that will silently force the installation of the
> Git-related stuff when I run just "make", and Make decides it needs to
> invoke autogen.sh, because the fact that I originally used the
> non-default argument isn't recorded anywhere, and thus cannot be
> replayed.  Right?

No, if you run Make from a freshly-checked-out directory, Make calls 
"./autogen.sh all", which sets up Git. The proposed patch doesn't affect 
this.

And if you run "./autogen.sh autoconf" and then run Make, Make won't set 
up Git. The proposed patch doesn't affect this either.

The only thing that changes is what happens if you run plain "./autogen.sh".