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This guide is optional for contributors. It is not necessary to use GitHub to contribute patches.

Note: This content was moved over from https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/GithubIntegration

There are several ways to setup Git for committers and contributors. Contributors can safely setup Git any way they choose but committers should take extra care since they can push new commits to the trunk at Apache and various policies there make backing out mistakes problematic. To keep the commit history clean take note of the use of --squash below when merging into apache/trunk.

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