1. Make sure your local environment has the following software installed:
* [Git](https://git-scm.com/)
- * [Mercurial](https://www.mercurial-scm.org/)
* [Go][] 1.5+
2. [Fork the Hugo project on GitHub](https://github.com/spf13/hugo).
### Prerequisite tools for downloading and building source code
* [Git](http://git-scm.com/)
-* [Mercurial](http://mercurial.selenic.com/)
* [Go][] 1.3+ (Go 1.4+ on Windows, see Go [Issue #8090](https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=8090))
### Get directly from GitHub