Note
This documentation is for a development version of IPython. There may be significant differences from the latest stable release (0.13.2).
These are the instructions if you just want to follow the latest ipython source, but you don’t need to do any development for now.
The steps are:
From the command line:
git clone git://github.com/ipython/ipython.git
You now have a copy of the code tree in the new ipython directory.
From time to time you may want to pull down the latest code. Do this with:
cd ipython
git pull
The tree in ipython will now have the latest changes from the initial repository.