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# Pacman development

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Interested in Pacman Development? This page should help you get started.

Remember that if you think something belongs on this page, add it! The current pacman developers are not likely to know what people need to know and should be on this page.

## References and Links

- Pacman Homepage
- Latest NEWS/ChangeLog
- Pacman Git Web Interface
- Pacman Roadmap

- Mailing List Archives

- HACKING
- Submitting Patches
- Translation Help

- IRC: #archlinux-pacman on irc.freenode.net

## Developer Repositories

A handful of the "regulars" have their own repositories with work in progress, working and feature branches, etc. Several are listed here, but feel free to add more that you may know about.

### Allan McRae

Web: https://projects.archlinux.org/users/allan/pacman.git/
Clone: git://projects.archlinux.org/users/allan/pacman.git
Clone: https://projects.archlinux.org/git/users/allan/pacman.git

### Andrew Gregory

Web: https://github.com/andrewgregory/pacman/
Clone: https://github.com/andrewgregory/pacman.git

## Git Tips

Before using these tips, it is highly recommended to read the Git article.

Clone git repo - only needed once

    git clone https://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git pacman

Enable useful hooks

    mv .git/hooks/applypatch-msg.sample .git/hooks/applypatch-msg
    mv .git/hooks/commit-msg.sample .git/hooks/commit-msg
    mv .git/hooks/pre-commit.sample .git/hooks/pre-commit
    mv .git/hooks/pre-rebase.sample .git/hooks/pre-rebase

or

    rename .sample "" .git/hooks/*.sample

Always do your work on a new local branch to save yourself headaches.

Make patch to master branch

    git format-patch master

Amend patch (do not use it after a push)

    git commit -a --amend -s

Update master branch

    git checkout master
    git pull

Merge changes on master with "<branch>"

    git rebase master <branch>

Get maint branch

    git checkout -b maint origin/maint

Add a remote repository

    git remote add toofishes git://code.toofishes.net/dan/pacman.git

Get toofishes working branch

    git branch -r
    git checkout -b toofishes-working toofishes/working

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