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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE index a5433e30d37..f257fc57f0f 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTE +++ b/CONTRIBUTE @@ -7,11 +7,14 @@ or run the shell command 'info "(emacs)Contributing"'.) ** The Emacs repository Emacs development uses Git on Savannah for its main repository. -Briefly, the following shell commands build and run Emacs from scratch: +To configure Git for Emacs development, you can run the following: git config --global user.name 'Your Name' git config --global user.email 'your.name@example.com' git config --global transfer.fsckObjects true + +The following shell commands then build and run Emacs from scratch: + git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git cd emacs ./autogen.sh |