Getting Started as a Developer

Getting the Development Source Code
If you want to get the development source code, we have two places where it can be found:
 * The Git source code repository at Savannah is the main reference repository. It contains the latest master branch of the source code that has successfully built on the build server of ESPResSo. To get the source code from Savannah, use git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/espressomd.git
 * For their own development, most of the developers use a repository at Github, which is forked from the main repository at Github. The code in this repo does not necessarily build and run correctly. You can always check the current status of the code on the build server. As most developers maintain a fork of this repository, you can get a glimpse of what is currently happening in development when you look at the Github network graph. To get a copy of the code, use git clone git://github.com/espressomd/espresso.git
 * When you have done modifications to the code that you want to give back to the
 * send a pull request via Github or
 * send an email containing the patches (if it is a single modification).

Developer's Docs
Have a look at the Developer's Docs.