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Development
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Contribute
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----------
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Contributions are welcome! Please **open an issue first** (or add a
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comment to an existing issue) if you plan to work on any code or add a
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new feature. This way, duplicate work is prevented and we can discuss
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your ideas and design first.
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More information and a description of the development environment can be
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found in `CONTRIBUTING.md <CONTRIBUTING.md>`__.
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A document describing the design of restic and the data structures stored on the
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back end is contained in `Design <https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/design.html>`__.
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If you'd like to start contributing to restic, but don't know exactly
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what do to, have a look at this great article by Dave Cheney:
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`Suggestions for contributing to an Open Source
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project <http://dave.cheney.net/2016/03/12/suggestions-for-contributing-to-an-open-source-project>`__
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A few issues have been tagged with the label ``help wanted``, you can
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start looking at those:
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https://github.com/restic/restic/labels/help%20wanted
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Security
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--------
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**Important**: If you discover something that you believe to be a
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possible critical security problem, please do *not* open a GitHub issue
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but send an email directly to alexander@bumpern.de. If possible, please
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encrypt your email using the following PGP key
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(`0x91A6868BD3F7A907 <https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCF8F18F2844575973F79D4E191A6868BD3F7A907>`__):
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::
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pub 4096R/91A6868BD3F7A907 2014-11-01
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Key fingerprint = CF8F 18F2 8445 7597 3F79 D4E1 91A6 868B D3F7 A907
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uid Alexander Neumann <alexander@bumpern.de>
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sub 4096R/D5FC2ACF4043FDF1 2014-11-01
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Compatibility
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-------------
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Backward compatibility for backups is important so that our users are
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always able to restore saved data. Therefore restic follows `Semantic
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Versioning <http://semver.org>`__ to clearly define which versions are
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compatible. The repository and data structures contained therein are
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considered the "Public API" in the sense of Semantic Versioning. This
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goes for all released versions of restic, this may not be the case for
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the master branch.
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We guarantee backward compatibility of all repositories within one major
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version; as long as we do not increment the major version, data can be
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read and restored. We strive to be fully backward compatible to all
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prior versions.
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Building documentation
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The restic documentation is built with `Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org>`__,
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therefore building it locally requires a recent Python version and requirements listed in ``doc/requirements.txt``.
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This example will guide you through the process using `virtualenv <https://virtualenv.pypa.io>`__:
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::
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$ virtualenv venv # create virtual python environment
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$ source venv/bin/activate # activate the virtual environment
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$ cd doc
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$ pip install -r requirements.txt # install dependencies
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$ make html # build html documentation
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$ # open _build/html/index.html with your favorite browser
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