ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
                           http://ngircd.barton.de/

               (c)2001-2011 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
               ngIRCd is free software and published under the
                   terms of the GNU General Public License.

                                 -- GIT.txt --


The source code of ngIRCd is maintained using GIT, an distributed version
control system. Homepage including documentation: <http://git-scm.com/>.


I. Viewing the source code online
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The ngIRCd "GITweb" interface allows you to browse the GIT repository and
to see all individual files, tags, branches, commits etc.:

 <http://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd.git>


II. Getting the source code
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

To access (copy, clone) the source tree repository anonymously, run:

 $ git clone git://ngircd.barton.de/ngircd.git

Thereby a new folder "ngircd" will be created containing all the individual
source files.

The newly created directory ("ngircd") is the "working directory", all
GIT commands will be executed from within this directory in the future.

Please note: When checking out a fresh copy of ngIRCd using GIT, the
configure script doesn't exist; you have to run the autogen.sh shell script
(which is included in the source tree) to generate it. This requires you to
have GNU automake and GNU autoconf installed on your system. Please see the
file INSTALL for details!

To update the local GIT repository:

 $ git pull

This retrieves all changes and merges them into the current branch.


III. Contributing
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Patches should be sent to the ngircd mailing list. List homepage:
http://arthur.barton.de/mailman/listinfo/ngircd-ml

If you do not want to send them to the list, you can also mail them
to Alex Barton, <alex@barton.de>.


IV. Write Access
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

If you want to contribute a couple of patches and write access to the GIT
repository would be handy, please contact Alex Barton, <alex@barton.de>.