Transition to pencil-code.org

Important: from 2024 we run our repository on our own domain "pencil-code.org", see instructions for the transition. Our repository is being mirrored almost instantaneously to GitHub, where GitHub was switched to read-only mode.

Download

You might get the code using SVN (recommended) or GIT (for git-experts).

• Read-only access

svn checkout https://pencil-code.org/svn/trunk pencil-code
git clone https://pencil-code.org/git/ pencil-code
No registration is required for read-only access.

• Write access

If you want to submit your changes, please register at account.pencil-code.org and apply for write access to the "main" repository. Ideally, you would register with the same "USERNAME" as your GitHub account.

=> SVN:

svn checkout --username=USERNAME https://pencil-code.org/svn/trunk pencil-code

=> GIT:

git clone https://USERNAME@pencil-code.org/git/ pencil-code

Be sure to use exactly the same email address and username as in your GitHub account:

git config --global user.email "my-primary@email.net"
git config --global user.name "USERNAME"

To cache your password for #### seconds, you can configure:

git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=####'

We strongly suggest to trigger an automatic rebase on each pull (to avoid implicit "Merge branch 'master'" commits):

git config --global pull.rebase true

Our GIT server can show SVN revisions as notes:
git config --add remote.origin.fetch '+refs/svn/map:refs/notes/commits'
git config remote.origin.tagOpt '--tags'
git pull
git log

SVN-GIT translation:

Translate between SVN revision: or GIT hash:  

Getting an old SVN revision:

Select the original source:

and its revision number:  

Stable releases:

The Pencil Code can also be obtained as a stable release.
We also provide the stable release r21570 as TAR.gz archive for direct download.