to fork the project.
Git makes it is all about distribution and makes it easy to retain a full copy of the repository for yourself, to . To get up started and running simply fork BaseX. If forking sounds unfamiliar to you I suggest you go read some of the [[GIT#Need_help_using_git.3F Manual]]documentation listed at the end of this page.
You can then build BaseX with [[Maven]], using Eclipse is optional.
==Using Git & Eclipse ==