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 <span id="id1"></span><h1>Set up<a class="headerlink" href="#set-up" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h1>
 <section id="install-and-set-up-git">
 <h2>Install and set up Git<a class="headerlink" href="#install-and-set-up-git" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
 <p>The Arrow project is developed using <a class="reference external" href="https://git-scm.com/">Git</a>
 for version control which is easily available for all common
 operating systems.</p>
 <p>You can follow the instructions to install Git from GitHub
 where Arrow repository is hosted, following
 <a class="reference external" href="https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/set-up-git">the quickstart instructions</a>.</p>
 <p>When Git is set up do not forget to configure your name and email</p>
 <div class="highlight-console notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>git<span class="w"> </span>config<span class="w"> </span>--global<span class="w"> </span>user.name<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;Your Name&quot;</span>
 <span class="gp">$ </span>git<span class="w"> </span>config<span class="w"> </span>--global<span class="w"> </span>user.email<span class="w"> </span>your.email@example.com
 </pre></div>
 </div>
 <p>and <a class="reference external" href="https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/set-up-git#next-steps-authenticating-with-github-from-git">authenticate with GitHub</a>
 as this will allow you to interact with GitHub without typing
 a username and password each time you execute a git command.</p>
 <div class="admonition note">
 <p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
 <p>This guide assumes you are comfortable working from the command line.
 Some IDEs allow you to manage a Git repository, but may implicitly run
 unwanted operations when doing so (such as creating project files).</p>
 <p>For example, cloning it in RStudio assumes the whole repository is an
 RStudio project and will create a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">.Rproj</span></code> file in the root directory.
 For this reason it is <em>highly recommended</em> to clone the repository using
 the command line or a Git client.</p>
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 <section id="get-the-source-code">
 <h2>Get the source code<a class="headerlink" href="#get-the-source-code" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
 <section id="fork-the-repository">
 <span id="fork-repo-guide"></span><h3>Fork the repository<a class="headerlink" href="#fork-the-repository" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h3>
 <p>The Arrow GitHub repository contains both the Arrow C++ library plus
 libraries for other languages such as Go, Java, Matlab, Python, R, etc.
 The first step to contributing is to create a fork of the repository
 in your own GitHub account.</p>
 <ol class="arabic">
 <li><p>Go to <a class="github reference external" href="https://github.com/apache/arrow">apache/arrow</a>.</p></li>
 <li><p>Press Fork in the top right corner.</p>
 <figure class="align-default" id="id2">
 <a class="reference internal image-reference" href="../../../_images/github_fork.jpeg"><img alt="Fork the Apache Arrow repository on GitHub." src="../../../_images/github_fork.jpeg" style="width: 488.5px; height: 58.5px;" />
 </a>
 <figcaption>
 <p><span class="caption-text">The icon to fork the Apache Arrow repository on GitHub.</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id2" title="Link to this image">#</a></p>
 </figcaption>
 </figure>
 </li>
 <li><p>Choose to fork the repository to your username so the fork will be
 created at <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">https://github.com/&lt;your</span> <span class="pre">username&gt;/arrow</span></code>.</p></li>
 </ol>
 </section>
 <section id="clone-the-repository">
 <h3>Clone the repository<a class="headerlink" href="#clone-the-repository" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h3>
 <p>Next you need to clone the repository</p>
 <div class="highlight-console notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>git<span class="w"> </span>clone<span class="w"> </span>https://github.com/&lt;your<span class="w"> </span>username&gt;/arrow.git
 </pre></div>
 </div>
 <p>and add Apache Arrow repository as a remote called <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">upstream</span></code>.</p>
 <div class="highlight-console notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span><span class="nb">cd</span><span class="w"> </span>arrow
 <span class="gp">$ </span>git<span class="w"> </span>remote<span class="w"> </span>add<span class="w"> </span>upstream<span class="w"> </span>https://github.com/apache/arrow
 </pre></div>
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 </section>
 <section id="verify-your-upstream">
 <h3>Verify your upstream<a class="headerlink" href="#verify-your-upstream" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h3>
 <p>Your upstream should be pointing at the Arrow GitHub repo.</p>
 <p>Running in the shell:</p>
 <div class="highlight-console notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>git<span class="w"> </span>remote<span class="w"> </span>-v
 </pre></div>
 </div>
 <p>Should give you a result similar to this:</p>
 <div class="highlight-console notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="go">origin    https://github.com/&lt;your username&gt;/arrow.git (fetch)</span>
 <span class="go">origin    https://github.com/&lt;your username&gt;/arrow.git (push)</span>
 <span class="go">upstream  https://github.com/apache/arrow (fetch)</span>
 <span class="go">upstream  https://github.com/apache/arrow (push)</span>
 </pre></div>
 </div>
 <p>If you did everything correctly, you should now have a copy of the code
 in the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">arrow</span></code> directory and two remotes that refer to your own GitHub
 fork (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">origin</span></code>) and the official Arrow repository (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">upstream</span></code>).</p>
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