Install git:
For instructions see https://git-scm.com/.
Fork the project. Go to https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim and click the “fork” button to create your own copy of the project. You will need a GitHub account. This will allow you to make a “pull request” (PR) to the ManimCommunity repo later on.
Clone your fork to your local computer:
git clone https://github.com/<your-username>/manim.git
GitHub will provide both a SSH (git@github.com:<your-username>/manim.git
) and
HTTPS (https://github.com/<your-username>/manim.git
) URL for cloning.
You can use SSH if you have SSH keys setup.
Warning
Do not clone the ManimCommunity repository. You must clone your own fork.
Change the directory to enter the project folder:
cd manim
Add the upstream repository, ManimCommunity:
git remote add upstream https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim.git
Now, git remote -v
should show two remote repositores named:
origin
, your forked repository
upstream
the ManimCommunity repository
Install Manim:
See our instructions for developers for details and continue here afterwards.
Install Pre-Commit (recommended):
poetry run pre-commit install
This is optional and will ensure during development that each of your
commit is properly formatted against our formatter, black
.
You are now ready to work on manim!
Checkout your local repository’s master branch and pull the latest
changes from ManimCommunity, upstream
, into your local repository:
git checkout master
git pull --rebase upstream master
Create a branch for the changes you want to work on rather than working off of master:
git checkout -b <new branch name> upstream/master
This ensures you can easily update your local repository’s master with the first step and switch branches to work on multiple features.
Write some awesome code!
You’re ready to make changes in your local repository’s branch.
You can add local files you’ve changed with in the current directory with
git add .
, or add specific files with
git add <file/directory>
and commit these changes to your local history with git commit
. If you
have installed pre-commit, your commit will succeed only if none of the
hooks fail.
Tip
When crafting commit messages, it is highly recommended that you adhere to these guidelines.
Add new or update existing tests.
Depending on your changes, you may need to update or add new tests. For new features, it is required that you include tests with your PR. Details of our testing system are explained in the testing guide.
Update docstrings and documentation:
Update the docstrings (the text in triple quotation marks) of any functions or classes you change and include them with any new functions you add. See the documentation guide for more information about how we prefer our code to be documented. The content of the docstrings will be rendered in the reference manual.
Tip
Use the manim directive for Sphinx
to add examples
to the documentation!
A directive for including Manim videos in a Sphinx document |
As far as development on your local machine goes, these are the main steps you should follow.
As soon as you are ready to share your local changes with the community so that they can be discussed, go through the following steps to open a pull request. A pull request signifies to the ManimCommunity organization, “Here’s some changes I wrote; I think it’s worthwhile for you to maintain them.”
Note
You do not need to have everything (code / documentation / tests) complete to open a pull request (PR). If the PR is still under development, please mark it as a draft. Community developers will still be able to review the changes, discuss yet-to-be-implemented changes, and offer advice; however, the more complete your PR, the quicker it will be merged.
Update your fork on GitHub to reflect your local changes:
git push -u origin <branch name>
Doing so creates a new branch on your remote fork, origin
, with the
contents of your local repository on GitHub. In subsequent pushes, this
local branch will track the branch origin
and git push
is enough.
Make a pull request (PR) on GitHub.
In order to make the ManimCommunity development team aware of your changes, you can make a PR to the ManimCommunity repository from your fork.
Warning
Make sure to select ManimCommunity/manim
instead of 3b1b/manim
as the base repository!
Choose the branch from your fork as the head repository - see the screenshot below.
Please make sure you follow the template (this is the default text you are shown when first opening the ‘New Pull Request’ page).
Your changes are eligible to be merged if:
there are no merge conflicts
the tests in our pipeline pass
at least one (two for more complex changes) Community Developer approves the changes
You can check for merge conflicts between the current upstream/master and
your branch by executing git pull upstream master
locally. If this
generates any merge conflicts, you need to resolve them and push an
updated version of the branch to your fork of the repository.
Our pipeline consists of a series of different tests that ensure that manim still works as intended and that the code you added sticks to our coding conventions.
Code style: We use the code style imposed
by Black. The pipeline
makes sure that the (Python) files changed in your pull request
also adhere to this code style. If this step of the pipeline fails,
fix your code style by running black <file or directory>
to
automatically format your files.
Tests: The pipeline runs manim’s test suite on different operating systems
(the latest versions of Ubuntu, MacOS, and Windows) for different versions of Python.
The test suite consists of two different kinds of tests: integration tests
and doctests. You can run them locally by executing poetry run pytest
and poetry run pytest --doctest-modules manim
, respectively, from the
root directory of your cloned fork.
Documentation: We also build a version of the documentation corresponding
to your pull request. Make sure not to introduce any Sphinx errors, and have
a look at the built HTML files to see whether the formatting of the documentation
you added looks like you intended. You can build the documentation locally
by running pip install -r docs/requirements.txt
and then running make html
.
Finally, if the pipeline passes and you are satisfied with your changes: wait for feedback and iterate over any requested changes. You will likely be asked to edit or modify your PR in one way or another during this process. This is not an indictment of your work, but rather a strong signal that the community wants to merge your changes! Once approved, your changes may be merged!
When submitting a PR, please make special note of whether your proposed changes will result in breaking changes.
When submitting a PR, make sure that your proposed changes are as general as possible, and ready to be taken advantage of by all of manim’s users. In particular, leave out any machine-specific configurations, or any personal information it may contain.
If you are a maintainer, please label issues and PRs appropriately and frequently.
When opening a new issue, if there are old issues that are related, link them in your new issue (even if the old ones are closed).
When submitting a code review, it is highly recommended that you adhere to these general guidelines.
If you find stale or inactive issues that seem to be irrelevant, please post a comment saying ‘This issue should be closed’, and a community developer will take a look.
Please do as much as possible to keep issues, PRs, and development in general as tidy as possible.
You can find examples for the docs
in several places:
the Example Gallery, Tutorials,
and Reference Classes.
In case you are contributing, please have a look at this flowchart:
Thank you for contributing!