Setting your Local Repository

Prerequisites:
1. GitHub account
2. Local git installation

Fork the main repository on GitHub:
1. Navigate to https://github.com/ornladios/adios2 in your browser.
2. Click the [Fork] button in the upper right-hand side of the page.

Clone the upstream repository to your local machine:

$ mkdir adios
$ cd adios
$ git clone https://github.com/ornladios/adios2.git source
Cloning into 'source'...
remote: Counting objects: 4632, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (80/80), done.
remote: Total 4632 (delta 33), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 4549
Receiving objects: 100% (4632/4632), 1.23 MiB | 224.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2738/2738), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
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Run the scripts/development/setup.sh script. The script will configure an upstream remote and link your local master branch to the upstream.

$ cd source/
$ ./scripts/developer/setup.sh 
Enter your GitHub username: chuckatkins
Setup SSH push access? [(y)/n] y
Re-configuring local master branch to use upstream
Fetching origin
remote: Counting objects: 6, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
remote: Total 6 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (6/6), done.
From https://github.com/chuckatkins/adios2
Fetching upstream
From https://github.com/ornladios/adios2
* [new branch]      <strong>master     -> upstream/master</strong>
* [new branch]      dashboard  -> upstream/dashboard
* [new branch]      hooks      -> upstream/hooks
Setting up git aliases...
Setting up git hooks...
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