Well it looks like README.git should just contain this: Instructions for compiling LilyPond from source files can be found online at:
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.21/Documentation/contributor/index_17#Compiling --- Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 7:43 AM Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: > > >> Seems to me like kind of a chicken-and-egg problem, though. In > >> order to build lilypond I need to read INSTALL.txt, but in order to > >> read INSTALL.txt, I need to build lilypond first... I ended up > >> googling for the file on the website and following the steps from > >> there instead. > > > > What about a README.txt file that says, "Run configure"? > > I think the normal way is to have a `README.git` file that contains > the necessary first steps to build from the repository, and people > should then continue with reading `README.txt` after it has been > created. > > > Werner >
