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First of all, you need the ZooKeeper source code. Get the source code on your local drive using gitGo to https://github.com/apache/zookeeper (which is a read only mirror of zookeeper git hosted on Apache) and click the fork button to create your own fork. After forking download your fork to local disk. Most development is done on the "master":

$ git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asfgithub.com/<userid>/zookeeper.git
 my-zookeeper

You may also want to develop against a specific release. You can list the release branches and checkout 3.4 by going into the zookeeper directory and running:

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Examine all public classes you've changed to see that documentation is complete, informative, and properly formatted. Your patch must not generate any javadoc warnings.

Creating a patch

Please note that we are deprecating contribution via patch, and replacing it with github pull request. Please refer to the "Pull requests via github" section in this page for how to contribute via pull request.

Check to see what files you have modified with:

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