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== Getting VLC source code via Git ==
 git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git
You can also browse the sources via [http://git.videolan.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi gitweb].

== Configure your local git repository ==
Tell git your name. (used by mostly by git-commit)
 $ git repo-config user.name "Your Name"
 $ git repo-config user.email "me@example.com"

== List the local branch ==
You can now list your local branch by doing
 $ git branch
which should ouput
 $ git branch
 * master

== Commit ==
Now you can start to work on your tree. As soon as you feel you've reached a step in developement you can commit '''locally''' your work by
 $ git commit -a
or
 $ git commit <specific files>

== Keeping your local working branch in sync ==
 $ git fetch origin
 $ git rebase origin
voilà! Your commit will be re-applied on top of the origin (the svn trunk).

== Creating a secondary local branch ==
If you want to work on a specific project that could require a branch of the trunk
 $ git branch mywork
to actually use it
 $ git checkout mywork
Then do some commit on it
 $ git checkout master
to go back to your normal branch

== Submitting patches to the vlc-devel ==
If you have been developing on vlc locally and (still) don't have write access to it you can submit all your commit in one shot using:
 $ git format-patch -o out origin
which will produce the patches for each local commit in the directory "out", or by using
 $ git format-patch --stdout --attach -n origin | git-imap-send
which will directly produces the emails and store them in a imap mail box, provided that you have properly set up [http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-imap-send.html git-imap-send].

== Documentation about git ==
* [http://git.or.cz/ Official Git Website]
* [http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/tutorial.html Git Tutorial]