bitcoin/contrib/README.md
S. Matthew English 66ca6cda4c Enforcing consistency, 'gitian' to 'Gitian'
There was once instance of 'gitian'. I changed it to 'Gitian' so that it would be consistent with all other instances in the file.
2016-11-04 13:02:13 +01:00

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Repository Tools

Developer tools

Specific tools for developers working on this repository. Contains the script github-merge.py for merging github pull requests securely and signing them using GPG.

Verify-Commits

Tool to verify that every merge commit was signed by a developer using the above github-merge.py script.

Linearize

Construct a linear, no-fork, best version of the blockchain.

Qos

A Linux bash script that will set up traffic control (tc) to limit the outgoing bandwidth for connections to the Bitcoin network. This means one can have an always-on bitcoind instance running, and another local bitcoind/bitcoin-qt instance which connects to this node and receives blocks from it.

Seeds

Utility to generate the pnSeed[] array that is compiled into the client.

Build Tools and Keys

Debian

Contains files used to package bitcoind/bitcoin-qt for Debian-based Linux systems. If you compile bitcoind/bitcoin-qt yourself, there are some useful files here.

Gitian-descriptors

Notes on getting Gitian builds up and running using KVM.

Gitian-keys

PGP keys used for signing Bitcoin Core Gitian release results.

MacDeploy

Scripts and notes for Mac builds.

RPM

RPM spec file for building bitcoin-core on RPM based distributions

Gitian-build

Script for running full Gitian builds.

Test and Verify Tools

TestGen

Utilities to generate test vectors for the data-driven Bitcoin tests.

Verify Binaries

This script attempts to download and verify the signature file SHA256SUMS.asc from bitcoin.org.