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Benny Lyons 2012-08-29 16:54:05 +01:00 committed by Ichthyostega
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Contributing to Lumiera
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All files in the Lumiera project are managed by *Git*. Although *Git* was
primarily brought to life to manage source code, it plays a fundamental role in
Lumiera project communication and contributing to Lumiera.
If you'd like to contribute to Lumiera, you will have to acquire some
understanding of *Git* at some stage or other. Please note, this is not the only
way to contribute to Lumiera, you can always send direct contributions to the
mailing list.
a powerful tool
that not only
which is a distributed
source code management system.
The Lumiera project uses an infrastructure based on *Git*, the distibuted
sourcecode management software. This deliberately places the barrier for
contributing very low: No formal ``commit right'' is necessary; you can
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http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html[basic
instructions] for using Git, notably the following parts:
http://gitref.org/
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$ git config --global user.name "Your Name Comes Here"
$ git config --global user.email you@yourdomain.example.com