688f665a5e526fda0fb797bf617412fe9cbe64fd Scripts and tools & Docs: Used #!/usr/bin/env bash instead of obsolete #!/bin/bash, added linting for .sh files shebang and updated the Developer Notes. (vim88) Pull request description: As it was discussed in [#13510](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13510), it is better to use `#!/usr/bin/env bash` instead of `#!/bin/bash`. Tree-SHA512: 25f71eb9a6a0cdc91568b5c6863205c5fe095f77a69e633503a2ac7805bd9013af8538e538c0c666ce96a28e3f43ce7a8df5f08d4ff007723bb588d85674f2da
Repository Tools
Developer tools
Specific tools for developers working on this repository.
Contains the script github-merge.py
for merging GitHub pull requests securely and signing them using GPG.
Verify-Commits
Tool to verify that every merge commit was signed by a developer using the above github-merge.py
script.
Linearize
Construct a linear, no-fork, best version of the blockchain.
Qos
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.
Seeds
Utility to generate the pnSeed[] array that is compiled into the client.
Build Tools and Keys
Packaging
The Debian subfolder contains the copyright file.
All other packaging related files can be found in the bitcoin-core/packaging repository.
Gitian-descriptors
Files used during the gitian build process. For more information about gitian, see the the Bitcoin Core documentation repository.
Gitian-keys
PGP keys used for signing Bitcoin Core Gitian release results.
MacDeploy
Scripts and notes for Mac builds.
Gitian-build
Script for running full Gitian builds.
Test and Verify Tools
TestGen
Utilities to generate test vectors for the data-driven Bitcoin tests.
Verify Binaries
This script attempts to download and verify the signature file SHA256SUMS.asc from bitcoin.org.