This Manual (GNU Awk Development Workflow)

This Web page has the following chapters and appendices:

How to Start Contributing describes how to start contributing to the gawk project.
Using Git introduces the Git distributed source code management system.
Configuring Global Settings For Git describes some initial set-up you need to do before using Git seriously.
Development Without Commit Access gets into the meat of the development workflow, describing how to work if you don’t have commit access to the Savannah repository.
Development With Commit Access continues the discussion, covering what’s different when you can commit directly to the Savannah repository.
General Development Practices describes general development practices used by the gawk development team.
Keeping Your Repo Organized presents several different things you need to know about to keep your repository in good shape.
Development Stuff describes some important points you should be familiar with in order to participate in gawk development and presents some tools that may make your work easier.
Git Command Cheat Sheet provides a short “cheat sheet” summarizing all the Git commands referenced in this Web page.
Git Resources provides a few pointers to Internet resources for learning more about Git.