Hacking-Git.md

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The goal of this document is not to be a tutorial but rather to point people to interesting material that has already been written.

Building Git

• "INSTALL"

• "Installing from Source" in the Pro Git book

• The top of the Makefile, for special "Makefile knobs"

Getting started hacking and contributing

• "My First Contribution"

• "My First Object Walk"

• Matheus' tutorial

• "Hacking Git" in the Git User's Manual

• "Documentation/technical", technical documentation (also viewable at https://git-scm.com/docs/<file-name-without-.txt>)

• Our General Microproject Information can help understand the process of contributing and find issues to work on.

Conventions and processes

• "CodingGuidelines"

• "SubmittingPatches"

• Git for Windows' "Good commits"

Branching workflow

• "A note from the maintainer"

• "Large-Merging Workflows" in the Pro Git book

• gitworkflows manual page

• "How to maintain Git"

• "How the Creators of Git do Branching", and the associated gitworkflow repository

Debugging

• Git for Windows' Debugging Git

• Launching GDB explanations in CodingGuidelines

• Philippe Blain's "Debugging Git" Gist

Tests

• "t/README"

• "t/perf/README"

Community, getting help, mentoring

• git-scm community page

• freenode webchat for the #git-devel IRC channel

• #git-devel IRC channel archive

• git-mentoring mailing list

Mentoring programs

• Google Summer of Code

• Outreachy

• General Application Information