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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2014-01-12 10:37:23 -0500
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2014-01-12 10:37:23 -0500
commitff7210fef52a3ced9ea517c8326164b241cc148b (patch)
treef46b9e58a2e9f212684b738b50e69197760ac008 /etc
parentc5eb43237d108a7d75bb9920b3b04d81c2089a92 (diff)
downloademacs-ff7210fef52a3ced9ea517c8326164b241cc148b.tar.gz
Remove more references unnecessarily specific to VCS.
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@@ -71,11 +71,12 @@ patches) over all your contributions.
* Getting the Source Code
-The latest version of Emacs can be downloaded using Bazaar from the
-Savannah web site. It is important to write your patch based on the
-latest version. If you start from an older version, your patch may be
-outdated (so that maintainers will have a hard time applying it), or
-changes in Emacs may have made your patch unnecessary.
+The latest version of Emacs can be fetched from the version-control
+repository on the Savannah web site. It is important to write your
+patch based on the latest version. If you start from an older
+version, your patch may be outdated (so that maintainers will have a
+hard time applying it), or changes in Emacs may have made your patch
+unnecessary.
After you have downloaded the repository source, you should read the file
INSTALL.REPO for build instructions (they differ to some extent from a