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This was lost in #2966

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Thanks for the PR. If you have write access, feel free to merge this PR if it does not need reviews. You can request a review using r? rustc-dev-guide or r? <username>.

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There is a binary that wraps bootstrap called `x`.
All it does is run `./x`, but it can be installed system-wide and run from any subdirectory of a checkout.
It runs `./x.py`, and can be installed system-wide and run from any subdirectory of a checkout.

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hm, this was intentional to change. x.py itself is not very interesting, and the x wrapper tries to call the shell scripts before the python script if it can. If you want to make this more clear, maybe say "all it does is run bootstrap"?

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oh, missed that ./x is not same thing as x

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