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At this point, you now have a copy of the DSpace Source Code, and you are checked out to the branch master (master is akin to svn trunk), which will work, but it is the bleeding edge of development and not recommended for production instances. Developers intending to contribute code to the core of DSpace should push changes to master.

If Otherwise, if you would like to develop on DSpace for your local needs (University, Library, or Institution), you are encouraged to fork this repository, and commit your changes to your personal/organizational repository. We recommend that you build your repository off of a released "tag" of DSpace such as dspace-1.8.2. The benefit of being based off of a tag/release-branch is that releases have a series of testing phases to ensure high quality, and there is some maintenance of bug and security fixes.

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