Setting-your-Local-Repository.md

+- Prerequisites:  
+    1. GitHub account
+    1. Local git installation
+
+1. <strong>Fork the main repository on GitHub</strong>:
+    1. Navigate to https://github.com/ornladios/adios2 in your browser.
+    1. Click the `[Fork]` button in the upper right-hand side of the page.  
+
+2. <strong>Clone the upstream repository to your local machine</strong>:
+   ```bash
+   $ 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.
+   $
+   ```  
+
+3. <strong>Run the ```scripts/development/setup.sh``` script</strong>.  The script will configure an ```upstream``` remote and link your local ```master``` branch to the upstream.
+   ```bash
+   $ 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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