Note:

If you want to create a new page for developers, you should create it on the Moodle Developer Resource site.

Composer

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Use composer to download moodle code

Composer.json now include meta information and hence composer can be used to download moodle code base. You can do it by creating composer.json file with following information {

   "repositories": [
       {
           "type": "vcs",
           "url": "https://git.in.moodle.com/moodle/integration.git"
       }
   ],
   "require": {
       "moodle/moodle": "v3.2.0"
   }

} And then execute php composer.phar install