## Source code repository

You can get the latest development source code from our git
repository if you want to. This code may not work, run, or even
compile. You'll also *need* to have the latest versions of
autoconf, automake, libtool and gettext installed. The files that
can be generated using these tools are *not* in the repository.

### Accessing the repository

You can [browse the repository](/git/tinc/) online. However, to
make real use of it you should have to have the git tools
installed. If you do not have them, you can find them at
[http://git.or.cz/](http://git.or.cz/).
Then run either one of these commands:

    git clone git://tinc-vpn.org/tinc

or:

    git clone http://tinc-vpn.org/git/tinc

This creates a copy of the public repository of tinc. For every
release of tinc there is a corresponding tag in the git repository,
you can get an old version by running
`git checkout release-`*version* on your copy of the git
repository. If you have checked out a copy of the public
repository, you can bring it up to date using the command
`git pull`.

### Log messages

Whenever something is changed in the repository, a log message is
sent to the tinc-svn list. If you wish to be kept up to date, you
can subscribe yourself to that [[mailing list|mail]].