1# Checking out Metalava 2 3Metalava can be downloaded from the `metalava-master` manifest branch via `repo` as explained below 4 5## To check out `metalava-master` using `repo`: 61. Install `repo` (Repo is a tool that makes it easier to download multiple Git repositories at once. For more information about Repo, see the [Repo Command Reference](https://source.android.com/setup/develop/repo)) 7 8```bash 9mkdir ~/bin 10PATH=~/bin:$PATH 11curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo 12chmod a+x ~/bin/repo 13``` 14 152. Configure Git with your real name and email address. 16 17```bash 18git config --global user.name "Your Name" 19git config --global user.email "you@example.com" 20``` 21 223. Create a directory for your checkout (it can be any name) 23 24```bash 25mkdir metalava-master 26cd metalava-master 27``` 28 294. Use `repo` command to initialize the repository. 30 31```bash 32repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b metalava-master 33``` 34 355. Now your repository is configured to pull only what you need for building and running Metalava. Download the code (this may take some time; the checkout is about 1.7G): 36 37```bash 38repo sync -j8 -c 39``` 40## Checking out `aosp/master` instead: 41 42For anyone that is already working in the `aosp/master` branch, you can use that repo checkout instead. For small changes to metalava, this is not recommended - it is a very large checkout, with many dependencies not used by metalava. 43 44## Developing 45 46See also [README.md](README.md) for details about building and running Metalava after you have checked out the code. 47 48