4 ### [Developer tools](/contrib/devtools) ###
5 Specific tools for developers working on this repository.
6 Contains the script `github-merge.py` for merging GitHub pull requests securely and signing them using GPG.
8 ### [Verify-Commits](/contrib/verify-commits) ###
9 Tool to verify that every merge commit was signed by a developer using the above `github-merge.py` script.
11 ### [Linearize](/contrib/linearize) ###
12 Construct a linear, no-fork, best version of the blockchain.
14 ### [Qos](/contrib/qos) ###
16 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.
18 ### [Seeds](/contrib/seeds) ###
19 Utility to generate the pnSeed[] array that is compiled into the client.
24 ### [Debian](/contrib/debian) ###
25 Contains files used to package bitcoind/bitcoin-qt
26 for Debian-based Linux systems. If you compile bitcoind/bitcoin-qt yourself, there are some useful files here.
28 ### [Gitian-descriptors](/contrib/gitian-descriptors) ###
29 Notes on getting Gitian builds up and running using KVM.
31 ### [Gitian-keys](/contrib/gitian-keys)
32 PGP keys used for signing Bitcoin Core [Gitian release](/doc/release-process.md) results.
34 ### [MacDeploy](/contrib/macdeploy) ###
35 Scripts and notes for Mac builds.
37 ### [RPM](/contrib/rpm) ###
38 RPM spec file for building bitcoin-core on RPM based distributions
40 ### [Gitian-build](/contrib/gitian-build.sh) ###
41 Script for running full Gitian builds.
46 ### [TestGen](/contrib/testgen) ###
47 Utilities to generate test vectors for the data-driven Bitcoin tests.
49 ### [Verify Binaries](/contrib/verifybinaries) ###
50 This script attempts to download and verify the signature file SHA256SUMS.asc from bitcoin.org.