Note: Almost all content here will eventually be revised and merged into the live-manual. Please do not add new content to the wiki, but contribute to the manual directly.

General information on getting the source code.

Get The Source Code

Get The Snapshots

cat /usr/share/live-helper/examples/sources/live-snapshot
## This is a sources.list for live-helper(7) to use packages from the
## Debian Live Snapshot repository.
##
## To enable it, copy this file to your config/chroot_sources directory, once
## as e.g. live-snapshots.bootstrap and once as live-snapshots.binary.

# Debian Live Snapshots
deb http://live.debian.net/debian-snapshots/ ./
deb-src http://live.debian.net/debian-snapshots/ ./

Getting started with your own git repo

otavio from irc provided the below steps to get you going with a git reop. This assumes you have cloned live-helper.git:

1.) You do have an user account at alioth, right?

2.) ssh into alioth and do:

3.) Now scp -r .git username@alioth.debian.org:public_git/live-helper.git

4.) Done

otavio also strongly recommends that you read the git manual.

Simple git Example for live-webhelper

1.) ssh into alioth and do:

2.) Clone live-webhelper to your system:

3.) Upload your clone to start your own development:

4.) Edit something with your favorite editor.

5.) Now commit:

6.) Now push your changes to your repo:

Hope this is helpful.