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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mike Kupfer <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:18:03 -0800
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 
> > > When I unpack an Emacs tarball, I usually check it into a fresh
> > > Mercurial repo before building.
> > 
> > Interesting.  I wonder why you do that.
> 
> It's so I can apply in-progress patches using Mercurial Queues (MQ).
> 
> > To me, if I wanted to have a backing VCS, I'd start from a `git clone`
> > rather than a tarball.
> 
> Maybe there's an easy way to manage this with Git, but I don't see one.

Does the below give any useful ideas?

  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/952651/git-equivalent-to-hg-mq