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Please keep discussions about ManifoldCF on list so that everyone benefits. Emailing individual committers with questions about specific ManifoldCF issues is discouraged. See http://people.apache.org/~hossman/#private_q.
Contributing Code (Features, Big Fixes, Tests, etc...)
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Get the source code on your local drive using SVN. Most development is done on the "trunk":
> svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/lcfmanifoldcf/trunk mcf-trunk
Note that committers have to use https instead of http here, but http is fine for read-only access to the trunk code.
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