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DOC: reorganize and simplify contributing.rst #7699

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DOC: minor tweaks to wording + capitalization
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tacaswell committed Jan 5, 2017
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8 changes: 5 additions & 3 deletions 8 doc/devel/contributing.rst
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.. warning::

If you already have a version of Matplotlib installed, you will need to
uninstall it.
If you already have a version of Matplotlib installed, use an
virtual environment or uninstalling using the same method you used
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uninstalling -> uninstall

to install it. Installing multiple versions of Matplotlib via different
methods into the same environment may not always work as expected.

We use `Git <https://git-scm.com/>`_ for version control and
`GitHub <https://github.com/>`_ for hosting our main repository.
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git clone git@github.com:matplotlib/matplotlib.git

and navigate to the Matplotlib directory.
and navigate to the :file:`matplotlib` directory.

To make sure the tests run locally you must build against the correct version
of freetype. To configure the build system to fetch and build it either export
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