Commit eb955dff authored by Richard Littauer's avatar Richard Littauer

Standardized Readme

See https://github.com/ipfs/community/issues/124

License: MIT
Signed-off-by: default avatarRichard Littauer <richard.littauer@gmail.com>
parent 323441d7
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2014 Juan Batiz-Benet
Copyright (c) 2016 Juan Batiz-Benet
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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# go-ipfs
# IPFS implementation in Go
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> IPFS implementation in Go
IPFS is a global, versioned, peer-to-peer filesystem. It combines good ideas from
Git, BitTorrent, Kademlia, SFS, and the Web. It is like a single bittorrent swarm,
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Please put all issues regarding IPFS _design_ in the
[ipfs repo issues](https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs/issues).
Please put all issues regarding Go IPFS _implementation_ in [this repo](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues).
Please put all issues regarding the Go IPFS _implementation_ in [this repo](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues).
## Table of Contents
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- [Install](#install)
- [Install prebuilt packages](#install-prebuilt-packages)
- [Build from Source](#build-from-source)
- [Prerequisite: Install Go](#prerequisite-install-go)
- [Download + Compile IPFS](#download--compile-ipfs)
- [Install Go](#install-go)
- [Download and Compile IPFS](#download-and-compile-ipfs)
- [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting)
- [Development Dependencies](#development-dependencies)
- [Updating](#updating)
- [Updating](#updating)
- [Usage](#usage)
- [Getting Started](#getting-started)
- [Some things to try](#some-things-to-try)
- [Docker usage](#docker-usage)
- [Docker usage with VirtualBox/boot2docker (OSX and Windows)](#docker-usage-with-virtualboxboot2docker-osx-and-windows)
- [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting)
- [Contributing](#contributing)
- [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting-1)
- [Todo](#todo)
- [Contributing](#contributing)
- [Want to hack on IPFS?](#want-to-hack-on-ipfs)
- [License](#license)
## Security Issues
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(If you run into trouble, see the [Go install instructions](https://golang.org/doc/install)).
#### Download + Compile IPFS
#### Download and Compile IPFS
go-ipfs differs from the vanilla `go get` flow: it uses
[gx](https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx)/[gx-go](https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx-go)
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If you make changes to the protocol buffers, you will need to install the [protoc compiler](https://github.com/google/protobuf).
## Updating
### Updating
IPFS has an updating tool that can be accessed through `ipfs update`. The tool is
not installed alongside IPFS in order to keep that logic independent of the main
codebase. To install `ipfs update`, either [download it here](https://gobuilder.me/github.com/ipfs/ipfs-update)
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and if you dont see your problem there, either come talk to us on irc (freenode #ipfs) or
file an issue of your own!
## Todo
An IPFS alpha version has been released in February 2015. Things left to be done are all marked as [issues](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues).
## Contributing
Please see [Contribute.md](contribute.md)!
## Todo
This repository falls under the IPFS [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/ipfs/community/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md).
An IPFS alpha version has been released in February 2015. Things left to be done are all marked as [issues](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues).
### Want to hack on IPFS?
[![](https://cdn.rawgit.com/jbenet/contribute-ipfs-gif/master/img/contribute.gif)](https://github.com/ipfs/community/blob/master/contributing.md)
## License
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