= Downloading GRASS Source =

== Packaged Source ==

All source releases are available for download from:

  * http://download.osgeo.org/grass

=== 6.2.3 Latest Stable GRASS6 Release ===

[wiki:Release/6.2.3-News]

=== 6.2.2 Stable GRASS6 Release ===

[wiki:Release/6.2.2-News]

=== 5.4.1 Latest Stable GRASS5 Release ===

[wiki:Release/5.4.1-News]

== Subversion GRASS main source code repository ==

The GRASS GIS software lives in the [http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] source control system. It can be browsed online using the [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser Browse Source] button on the top bar.

With the subversion client software installed, the current GRASS development version can be extracted using the command:

{{{
  svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk grass
}}}

To extract the current stable version use the command:

{{{
  svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_6_2 grass62
}}}

Update access to the Subversion repository is governed by [http://download.osgeo.org/grass/grass6_progman/rfc/rfc2_psc.html RFC 2: Legal aspects of code contributions]. Commiters should take care to use https for access, and use their [http://www.osgeo.org/osgeo_userid OSGeo Userid] for authentication. A commit command might look something like:

{{{
  svn commit -m "Distinguish between raster and vector backends (bug #999)" main.c --username glynn
}}}

== Subversion GRASS Addons source code repository ==

With the subversion client software installed, the current GRASS Addons can be extracted using the command:

{{{
  svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass-addons grass-addons
}}}

== Subversion GRASS repository dumpstreams ==

Incremental dumpstreams of GRASS SVN repository are available at [http://svn.osgeo.org/dumps/grass/].

== Subversion read-only backup of GRASS OSGeo repository (ViewCVS interface) ==

Available [http://josef.fsv.cvut.cz/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=grass-osgeo] (note: svnsync runs every three hours).