## 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//www.tinc-vpn.org/tinc

or:

    git clone http://www.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]].

### Old Subversion repository

Prior to git, Subversion was used for the source code repository.
Although the repository was converted to git, and almost all
history is also available from the git repository, the Subversion
repository is still available for now. It may disappear in the
future however. You can
[browse the old Subversion repository](/svn/tinc/) online, or check
out a working copy of the main development branch of tinc (up to
1.0.9) with the following command:

    svn co http://www.tinc-vpn.org/svn/tinc/trunk tinc