How to download the Open-Xchange source code

Starting with 6.22 the source code of Open-Xchange server is available from Git repositories.

The following repositories exist:

Repository	content
https://gitlab.open-xchange.com/middleware/core	The main repository containing most of the parts of Open-Xchange server
https://gitlab.open-xchange.com/frontend/core	The user interface of OX App Suite
https://gitlab.open-xchange.com/appsuite/guard	The server-code and UI for OX Guard (PGP implementation)
https://code.open-xchange.com/git/frontend6	The AJAX user interface (version 6)
documentconverter-api	The API of the server-based part of the documentconverter needed for OX Text
office	The server-code for OX Text and OX Spreadsheet
office-web	The frontend-code for OX Text and OX Spreadsheet

Git operations to access the code

To clone a repository in case of gitlab please follow the instructions shown there. For cloning from code.open-xchange.com, run

$ git clone https://code.open-xchange.com/git/<repository>
$ cd <repository>
$ git checkout -t origin/<branch>

For a list of available branches, run

$ git branch -r

The main development process uses the following branches:

Git branch	content
develop	head development
release-<version>	stabilizing for <version> release
master	maintenance of current release
master-<version>	maintenance of previous releases