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Repository Tools
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### [Developer tools](/contrib/devtools) ###
Specific tools for developers working on this repository.
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Additional tools, including the `github-merge.py` script, are available in the [maintainer-tools ](https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoin-maintainer-tools ) repository.
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### [Verify-Commits](/contrib/verify-commits) ###
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Tool to verify that every merge commit was signed by a developer using the `github-merge.py` script.
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### [Linearize](/contrib/linearize) ###
Construct a linear, no-fork, best version of the blockchain.
### [Qos](/contrib/qos) ###
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A Linux bash script that will set up traffic control (tc) to limit the outgoing bandwidth for connections to the Bitcoin network. This means one can have an always-on bitcoind instance running, and another local bitcoind/bitcoin-qt instance which connects to this node and receives blocks from it.
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### [Seeds](/contrib/seeds) ###
Utility to generate the pnSeed[] array that is compiled into the client.
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Build Tools and Keys
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### Packaging ###
The [Debian ](/contrib/debian ) subfolder contains the copyright file.
All other packaging related files can be found in the [bitcoin-core/packaging ](https://github.com/bitcoin-core/packaging ) repository.
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### [Gitian-descriptors](/contrib/gitian-descriptors) ###
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Files used during the gitian build process. For more information about gitian, see the [the Bitcoin Core documentation repository ](https://github.com/bitcoin-core/docs ).
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### [Gitian-keys](/contrib/gitian-keys)
PGP keys used for signing Bitcoin Core [Gitian release ](/doc/release-process.md ) results.
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### [MacDeploy](/contrib/macdeploy) ###
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Scripts and notes for Mac builds.
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### [Gitian-build](/contrib/gitian-build.py) ###
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Script for running full Gitian builds.
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Test and Verify Tools
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### [TestGen](/contrib/testgen) ###
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Utilities to generate test vectors for the data-driven Bitcoin tests.
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### [Verify Binaries](/contrib/verifybinaries) ###
This script attempts to download and verify the signature file SHA256SUMS.asc from bitcoin.org.