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• Intro to Git for those who know SVN: http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html
• Pro-Git Book (Online) :-> Great intro to Git in general
• Git Community Book (Online) :Git Reference: http://gitref.org/^{Image Removed}-> Another great Git introduction
• Git Reference -> This site is a great reference for various Git commands that are available
• Fedora Developers' list of useful Git Resources
• Fedora Developers' Git Guidelines and Best Practices (not all are Fedora specific)
• Fedora Developers' Git Quick Start Guide
• Chris Wilper's (Fedora Committer) tips/rules on using Git: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/~cwilper/How+I+Use+Git

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Clone the repository. (The git repo is ~65MB). In the below example, we named the local directory "dspace-src", but you can name it whatever you want.

git clone git://github.com/DSpace/DSpace.git dspace-src
cd DSpacedspace-src

At this point, you now have a copy of the DSpace Source Code (i.e. {{\[dspace-source\]), 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. 

If you would like to develop on DSpace for your local needs (University, Library, or Institution), you are encouraged to fork this GitHub 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.

git checkout dspace-1.8.2

From there, you can follow the standard DSpace build instructions follows. in order to build/install DSpace from the source code. For example:

mvn package 
cd dspace/target/dspace-<version>[version]-build.dir
ant update 
/etc/init.d/tomcat6 restart

Quick Primer on Using Git

Checking the status of your tree.
git status

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