## 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
[https://git-scm.com/](https://git-scm.com/).
Then run this command:

    git clone https://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`.

### GitHub and GitLab repositories

There are also a clones of the official repository on GitHub and GitLab:

* [https://github.com/gsliepen/tinc](https://github.com/gsliepen/tinc)
* [https://gitlab.com/gsliepen/tinc](https://gitlab.com/gsliepen/tinc)

You can use these to easily create your own forks and make your own commits public.
This allows us to review them and possibly merge them with the official tinc repository.

### 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]].