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# Timewarrior
Thank you for taking a look at Timewarrior!
Timewarrior is a time tracking utility that offers simple stopwatch features as well as sophisticated calendar-base backfill, along with flexible reporting.
It is a portable, well supported and very active Open Source project.
## Installing
### From Package
Thanks to the community, there are binary packages available [here](https://taskwarrior.org/docs/timewarrior/download.html#Distributions).
### Building Timewarrior
Building Timewarrior yourself requires
* git
* cmake
* make
* C++ compiler, currently gcc 4.7+ or clang 3.3+ for full C++11 support
* Python, for running the testsuite
There are two ways to retrieve the Timewarrior sources:
* Clone the repository from Github,
git clone https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/timewarrior
checkout the dev branch, and update submodules
cd timewarrior
git checkout dev
git submodule update
* Or download the tarball with curl,
curl -O https://taskwarrior.org/download/timew-1.1.1.tar.gz
and expand the tarball
tar xzf timew-1.1.1.tar.gz
cd timew-1.1.1
Build Timewarrior, optionally run the test suite (note: the tarball does not contain tests), and install it.
This copies files into the right place, and installs man pages.
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release .
make
[make test]
sudo make install
## Documentation
There is extensive online documentation.
You'll find all the details at:
https://taskwarrior.org/docs/timewarrior
At the site you'll find online documentation, downloads, news and more.
## Contributing
Your contributions are especially welcome.
Whether it comes in the form of code patches, ideas, discussion, bug reports, encouragement or criticism, your input is needed.
For support options, take a look at [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) or visit
https://taskwarrior.org/support
Visit [Github](https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/timewarrior) and participate in the future of Timewarrior.
## License
Timewarrior is released under the MIT license.
For details check the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file.