VTK/Git

Introduction

VTK version tracking and development is hosted by Git. Please select a task for further instructions:

Main Tasks:

Install Git - Git 1.6.6 or greater is preferred (required for development)

Download VTK - Users start here

Develop VTK - Contributors start here

Other Tasks:

Review Changes - VTK Gerrit Code Review

Test VTK - CDash client setup

Learn Git - Third-party documentation

Use GitHub - Help using GitHub

The remainder of this page provides reference information and links. It is not intended to provide instructions.

Repositories

One may browse the repositories online using the Gitweb interface at http://vtk.org/gitweb.

Repository	Purpose	Access	URL
VTK.git	Visualization Toolkit	clone (git)	git://vtk.org/VTK.git
		clone (http)	http://vtk.org/VTK.git
		push (ssh)	git@vtk.org:VTK.git (maintainers only)
VTK Gerrit	VTK Code Review
		fetch (http)	http://review.source.kitware.com/p/VTK
		push (ssh)	ssh://username@review.source.kitware.com/VTK
VTKData.git	VTK Testing Data	clone (git)	git://vtk.org/VTKData.git
		clone (http)	http://vtk.org/VTKData.git
		push (ssh)	git@vtk.org:VTKData.git
VTKLargeData.git	VTK Large Data	clone (git)	git://vtk.org/VTKLargeData.git
		clone (http)	http://vtk.org/VTKLargeData.git
		push (ssh)	git@vtk.org:VTKLargeData.git
GitHub	Mirror		https://github.com/Kitware/VTK
Gitorious	Mirror		https://gitorious.org/kitware/vtk

Branches

At the time of this writing the VTK.git repository has the following branches:

• master: Development (default)
• release: Maintenance of latest release
• nightly-master: Follows master, updated at 01:00 UTC
• hooks: Local commit hooks (place in .git/hooks)
• dashboard: Dashboard script (setup a CDash client)

Release branches converted from CVS have been artificially merged into master. Actual releases have tags named by the release version number.