Get the source

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Requirements

The source code repository is handled with  git.

How to get the source

This is the checkout command for the main git repo:

# Create a directory to store the source code
mkdir ~/src

# Get in it
cd ~/src

# Clone the repository using git
git clone git://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh/libssh.git

List of branches

• master

This is the development branch of libssh

• v0-3

This is the 0.3 branch which gets only bugfixes and features which don't break the API and ABI.

Where to go from here

Now that you have the necessary source code to build, we can move on to the next step, building the software