http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51907
--- Comment #9 from Ken Sharp imwellcushtymelike@gmail.com --- (In reply to Eric Toombs from comment #5)
I could. Are there any extra steps to running a wine compiled in the git root with a prefix at ~/.wine?
No, the default is still ~/.wine, though you might want to make a backup if there's anything important in there.