Re: what make-dist should include [was Re: Emacs pretest 26.1.91 is out]

[Stefan Monnier]

> When I unpack an Emacs tarball, I usually check it into a fresh
> Mercurial repo before building.

Interesting.  I wonder why you do that.

To me, if I wanted to have a backing VCS, I'd start from a `git clone`
rather than a tarball.

Is it because you deal with many packages and it's easier to find their
tarballs than to find the repository and the tag that corresponds to
a particular release?  Still, why bother with a VCS?


        Stefan