Two basic questionss

[Dean S. Messing]

I've downloaded the git repo, moved from the master to the 5.3 branch
according to the instructions in the link you provided, Calixte, and
fetched the codereview patch that fixes the Java exception in SciNotes
using 

git fetch http://codereview.scilab.org/p/scilab refs/changes/67/2367/1 && git checkout FETCH_HEAD

from the other link you provided.

I do not (yet) really understand git, so please forgive the very basic
questions:


Now that I have the 5.3 branch, do I perform the build right inside the
scilab directory (with ./configure, etc.) or do I copy the "scilab"
directory somewhere else to protect the contents of the "clean" version?
 
Thanks.

Dean