1Obtaining the source
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4The source of the U-Boot project is maintained in a Git repository.
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6You can download the source via
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8.. code-block:: bash
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10    git clone https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot.git
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12A mirror of the source is maintained on Github
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14.. code-block:: bash
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16    git clone https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot
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18The released versions are available as tags which use the naming scheme::
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20    v<year>.<month>
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22Release candidates are named::
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24    v<year>.<month>-rc<number>
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26To checkout the October 2020 release you would use:
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28.. code-block:: bash
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30    git checkout v2020.10
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