# NiBabel

### Access a cacophony of neuro-imaging file formats

# Making your own copy (fork) of nibabel

You need to do this only once. The instructions here are very similar to the instructions at https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/ — please see that page for more detail. We’re repeating some of it here just to give the specifics for the nibabel project, and to suggest some default names.

## Set up and configure a github account

If you don’t have a github account, go to the github page, and make one.

You then need to configure your account to allow write access — see the `Generating SSH keys` help on github help.

## Create your own forked copy of nibabel

1. Log into your github account.

2. Go to the nibabel github home at nibabel github.

3. Click on the fork button:

   Now, after a short pause and some ‘Hardcore forking action’, you should find yourself at the home page for your own forked copy of nibabel.