Getting the source

Downloading the Godot source code

getting into the SCons build system and compiling Godot, you need to actually download the Godot source code. GitHub and while you can manually download it via the website, in general you want to do it via the git version control system. Pull Request workflow. git yet, there are a great number of tutorials available on various websites. git and/or one of the various GUI clients. master branch), you can use git clone. git command line client, this is done by entering the following in a terminal:

git clone https://github.com/godotengine/godot.git# You can add the --depth 1 argument to omit the commit history.# Faster, but not all Git operations (like blame) will work.

release page and click on the link for the release you want. You can then download and extract the source from the download link on the page. git, you can also clone a stable release by specifying its branch or tag after the --branch (or just -b) argument:

# Clone the continuously maintained stable branch (`3.x` as of writing).git clone https://github.com/godotengine/godot.git -b 3.x# Clone the `3.2.3-stable` tag. This is a fixed revision that will never change.git clone https://github.com/godotengine/godot.git -b 3.2.3-stable

master for each major version. continue to compiling Godot.