1. Ensure that Git, Java JDK >= 1.8 are installed.
You can find information about development environment preparation here:
Prepare development environment in Ubuntu.
2. Fork your copy from Checkstyle main project. As it is described
here
3. Checkout the current source code from: https://github.com/you_user_name/checkstyle/
by running
Here you can find instructions of importing and debugging the project for IDEs:
Eclipse IDE
NetBeans IDE
IntelliJ Idea IDE
Follow these instructions of Git usage and creating a Pull Request:
1) Configure remotes:
6) Update current branch and local master by pulling changes that were done
by other contributors:
In that case it will stop and allow you to fix the conflicts.
After fixing conflicts, use git add . to update the index with those contents,
and then just run: