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  • Contributing
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  • Setting up Matplotlib for development
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  • Working with Matplotlib source code
    • Introduction
    • Install git
    • Following the latest source
    • Making a patch
    • Git for development
    • Making your own copy (fork) of Matplotlib
    • Set up your fork
    • Configure git
    • Development workflow
    • Maintainer workflow
    • git resources
    • Two and three dots in difference specs
  • Pull request guidelines
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  • Dependencies
  • Minimum version of dependencies policy
  • Matplotlib Enhancement Proposals
    • MEP Template
    • MEP8: PEP8
    • MEP9: Global interaction manager
    • MEP10: Docstring consistency
    • MEP11: Third-party dependencies
    • MEP12: Improve Gallery and Examples
    • MEP13: Use properties for Artists
    • MEP14: Text handling
    • MEP15: Fix axis autoscaling when limits are specified for one axis only
    • MEP19: Continuous Integration
    • MEP21: color and cm refactor
    • MEP22: Toolbar rewrite
    • MEP23: Multiple Figures per GUI window
    • MEP24: Negative radius in polar plots
    • MEP25: Serialization
    • MEP26: Artist styling
    • MEP27: Decouple pyplot from backends
    • MEP28: Remove Complexity from Axes.boxplot
    • MEP29: Text light markup
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  • Testing
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  • Documentation style guide
  • Working with Matplotlib source code
  • Pull request guidelines
  • Release guide
  • Dependencies
  • Minimum version of dependencies policy
  • Matplotlib Enhancement Proposals

Install git#

Overview#

Debian / Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install git

Fedora

sudo yum install git

Windows

Download and install msysGit

OS X

Use the git-osx-installer

In detail#

See the git page for the most recent information.

Have a look at the github install help pages available from github help

There are good instructions here: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git

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