Important

This is part of a Draft of the Python Contributor’s Guide. Text in square brackets are notes about content to fill in. Currently, the devguide and this new Contributor’s Guide co-exist in the repo. We are using Sphinx include directives to demonstrate the re-organization. The final Contributor’s Guide will replace the devguide with content in only one place. We welcome help with this!

The [Plan for the Contributor’s Guide] page has more details about the current state of this draft and how you can help. See more info about the Contributor Guide in the discussion forum: Refactoring the DevGuide.

Install Git

[This is the Install Git section from the devguide.]

CPython is developed using Git for version control. The Git command line program is named git; this is also used to refer to Git itself. Git is easily available for all common operating systems.

• Install

  As the CPython repo is hosted on GitHub, please refer to either the GitHub setup instructions or the Git project instructions for step-by-step installation directions. You may also want to consider a graphical client such as TortoiseGit or GitHub Desktop.

• Configure

  Configure your name and email and create an SSH key as this will allow you to interact with GitHub without typing a username and password each time you execute a command, such as git pull, git push, or git fetch. On Windows, you should also enable autocrlf.