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authorMatti Tahvonen <matti@vaadin.com>2019-02-14 12:54:58 +0200
committerSun Zhe <31067185+ZheSun88@users.noreply.github.com>2019-03-06 10:30:35 +0200
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# Obtain a current source tree
-The Vaadin repository can be cloned using `git clone https://github.com/vaadin/framework.git` or using your favorite Git tool.
+To make contributions you should create a fork of the Vaadin repository and check out the sources to your development environment. If you are not familiar with Git and GitHub, you can refer to [GitHub's forking guide](https://guides.github.com/activities/forking/).
-Remember to do `git checkout master` and `git pull` to make sure you are creating your commits on top of a recent enough version.
+We encourige to develop all features in separate branches. This way you can have one feature per pull request.
https://robots.thoughtbot.com/keeping-a-github-fork-updated has instructions on how to keep your local fork up to date.