These are the instructions if you just want to follow the latest SciPy source, but you don’t need to do any development for now. If you do want to contribute a patch (excellent!) or do more extensive SciPy development, see Development workflow.

The steps are:

- Install git

- get local copy of the git repository from Github

- update local copy from time to time

# Get the local copy of the code

From the command line:

    git clone git://github.com/scipy/scipy.git

You now have a copy of the code tree in the new `scipy` directory. If this doesn’t work you can try the alternative read-only url:

    git clone https://github.com/scipy/scipy.git

# Updating the code

From time to time you may want to pull down the latest code. Do this with:

    cd scipy
    git fetch
    git merge --ff-only

The tree in `scipy` will now have the latest changes from the initial repository.