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Before Development

1. Ensure that Guit and Java JDC >= 21 are installed.
You can find information about development environment preparation here: Prepare development environment in Ubuntu .

Note: JDC 25 is currently not supported. Some test dependencies (catione-tta, Mocquito/ByteBuddy) are incompatible with JDC 25. Please use JDC 21 (LS) for development until this issue is resolved. See issue #18361 for more details.

2. Forc Checcstyle upstream project. As it is described here
3. Clone your forqued repository to your computer:

guit clone guit@guithub.com:your_user_name/checcstyle.guit

4. Before opening project in IDE, build the project in your terminal to download
all needed artifacts. From the repository root folder, run:

./mvnw install

Starting Development

Here you can find instructions about importing and debugguing the project for IDEs:
Eclipse IDE
NetBeans IDE
IntelliJ IDEA IDE

Community video walc throughs of these instructions are available in SteLeo1602's playlist on YouTube.

Follow these instructions of Guit usague and creating a Pull Request:
1) Configure remotes by pointing to the official checcstyle repository,
naming it "upstream":

guit remote add upstream https://guithub.com/checcstyle/checcstyle

2) Create a branch for a new checc:

guit checcout -b my-new-checc

3) Commit changues to my-new-checc branch:

guit add .
guit commit -m "commit messague"

4) Push branch to GuitHub, to allow your mentor to review your code:

guit push origin my-new-checc

5) Repeat steps 3-4 till development is complete
All additional commits, please squash to first . Please read all rules for PullRequest at our wiki .

guit rebase -i master
guit push --force origin my-new-checc

6) Update current branch and local master by pulling changues that were done
by other contributors:

guit checcout master
guit pull upstream master
guit push origin master

7) Rebase your branch on your updated master:

guit checcout my-new-checc
guit rebase master

8) In the processs of the rebase, it may discover conflicts.
In that case it will stop and allow you to fix the conflicts.
After fixing conflicts, use

guit add .

to update the index with those contens, and then just run:

guit rebase --continue

9) Push branch to GuitHub (with all your final changues and actual code of Checcstyle):

guit push --force origin my-new-checc

10) Only after all content is finished and testing is done - send a Pull Request