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docs: add note about origin URLs to GN build docs (#14530)

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@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ try to download a Google-internal version that only Googlers have access to).
## Cached builds (optional step)
### GIT_CACHE_PATH
### GIT\_CACHE\_PATH
If you plan on building Electron more than once, adding a git cache will
speed up subsequent calls to `gclient`. To do this, set a `GIT_CACHE_PATH`
@ -38,6 +38,16 @@ $ mkdir -p "${GIT_CACHE_PATH}"
# This will use about 16G.
```
> **NOTE**: the git cache will set the `origin` of the `src/electron`
> repository to point to the local cache, instead of the upstream git
> repository. This is undesirable when running `git push`—you probably want to
> push to github, not your local cache. To fix this, from the `src/electron`
> directory, run:
```sh
$ git remote set-url origin https://github.com/electron/electron
```
### sccache
Thousands of files must be compiled to build Chromium and Electron.