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feed98e189 Ensure repos are up-to-date (Hennadii Stepanov) Pull request description: These steps are provided by the [release process](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-process.md#setup-and-perform-gitian-builds). ACKs for commit feed98: Tree-SHA512: ad6876d211e524cf6b8dbe4f0f026b77792c8ae3b728e1419f17d5679766603d21c057a7866c183794c814b914a9e4584e16fc501bec77af7e3472a34bd4d913
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
Packaging
The Debian subfolder contains the copyright file.
All other packaging related files can be found in the bitcoin-core/packaging repository.
Gitian-descriptors
Files used during the gitian build process. For more information about gitian, see the the Bitcoin Core documentation repository.
Gitian-keys
PGP keys used for signing Bitcoin Core Gitian release results.
MacDeploy
Scripts and notes for Mac builds.
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.