Is it on purpose that the http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/download/gambit/v4.9/source/gambit-v4_9_... image contains the .git directory with the entire history?
The lib/makefile.in later detects the presence of .git and uses the git binary, adding one dependency to the build, in addition to making the tarball bigger.
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