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Welcome contributors! We strive to include everyone's contributions. This page provides necessary guidelines on how to contribute effectively towards furthering the development and evolution of Sqoop. You should also read the guide on Setting up Sqoop 1 where you will find details on how to checkout, build and test Sqoop. If you are interested in contributing to Sqoop2, please follow Setting up Sqoop 2

Note: This guide applies to general contributors. If you are a committer, please read the Guide for Committers as well.

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What can be contributed?

There are many ways you can contribute towards the project. A few of these are:

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• Test your changes before submitting a review: Before you make the JIRA status as 'Patch Available', please test your changes thoroughly. Make sure that all tests are passing and that the functionality you have worked on is tested through existing or new tests.

• Submitting a patch: To submit a patch, first make sure that you have attached it to the JIRA and changed the status of the JIRA to 'Patch Available'. If the change is non-trivial, then please also post the patch for review on review board. The commands to generate the patch are:

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  $ svn diff > /path/to/patch-file.patch

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  $ git diff --no-prefix > /path/to/patch-file.patch

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