From 6062a2bdf44c15e5b0cf8ff26f788cd276f85de8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jaques Grobler <jaquesgrobler@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:18:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Added a note to the contributers documentation
---
doc/developers/index.rst | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/developers/index.rst b/doc/developers/index.rst
index c7d49019a5..5c46187dca 100644
--- a/doc/developers/index.rst
+++ b/doc/developers/index.rst
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ You are also welcome to post there feature requests or links to pull-requests.
Retrieving the latest code
==========================
+Before you get started, you will need a program called `git`. If you are unfamiliar with it, see `this link <http://progit.org/book/ch1-0.html>`_ for a very good tutorial on installing it, as well as using it.
+
You can check the latest sources with the command::
git clone git://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn.git
@@ -70,8 +72,7 @@ repository on
button, at the top, center of the page. This creates a copy of
the code on the GitHub server where you can work.
- 3. Clone this copy to your local disk (you need the `git` program to do
- this)::
+ 3. Clone this copy to your local disk::
$ git clone git@github.com:YourLogin/scikit-learn.git
--
GitLab