Welcome. This will be fast. This guide describes how you can contribute to software projects here using the Git version-control system. Git is a distributed VCS, so you do not need to be granted commit access in advance. You can hack, commit, and then send in your patches without permission from anyone. Step 1: Get Git These instructions assume you have git 1.5.1 or above. Debian or Ubuntu: apt-get install git-core git-email