diff --git a/hacking/README.md b/hacking/README.md
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+'Hacking' directory tools
+=========================
+
+Env-setup
+---------
+
+The 'env-setup' script modifies your environment to allow you to run
+tower-cli from a git checkout using python 2.6+.
+
+First, set up your environment to run from the checkout:
+
+    $ source ./hacking/env-setup
+
+You will need some basic prerequisites installed.  If you do not already have them
+and do not wish to install them from your operating system package manager, you
+can install them from pip
+
+    $ easy_install pip               # if pip is not already available
+    $ pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+From there, follow tower-cli instructions on docs.ansible.com as normal.
+
+
diff --git a/hacking/env-setup b/hacking/env-setup
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+# usage: source hacking/env-setup [-q]
+#    modifies environment for running Ansible Tower CLI from checkout
+
+# Default values for shell variables we use
+PYTHONPATH=${PYTHONPATH-""}
+PATH=${PATH-""}
+MANPATH=${MANPATH-""}
+PYTHON=$(which python 2>/dev/null || which python3 2>/dev/null)
+PYTHON_BIN=${PYTHON_BIN-$PYTHON}
+
+verbosity=${1-info} # Defaults to `info' if unspecified
+
+if [ "$verbosity" = -q ]; then
+    verbosity=silent
+fi
+
+# When run using source as directed, $0 gets set to bash, so we must use $BASH_SOURCE
+if [ -n "$BASH_SOURCE" ] ; then
+    HACKING_DIR=$(dirname "$BASH_SOURCE")
+elif [ $(basename -- "$0") = "env-setup" ]; then
+    HACKING_DIR=$(dirname "$0")
+# Works with ksh93 but not pdksh, have to eval to keep ash happy...
+elif [ -n "$KSH_VERSION" ] && echo $KSH_VERSION | grep -qv '^@(#)PD KSH'; then
+    eval "HACKING_DIR=\$(dirname \"\${.sh.file}\")"
+else
+    HACKING_DIR="$PWD/hacking"
+fi
+# The below is an alternative to readlink -fn which doesn't exist on OS X
+# Source: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1678636
+FULL_PATH=$($PYTHON_BIN -c "import os; print(os.path.realpath('$HACKING_DIR'))")
+export ANSIBLE_HOME="$(dirname "$FULL_PATH")"
+
+PREFIX_PYTHONPATH="$ANSIBLE_HOME/lib"
+PREFIX_PATH="$ANSIBLE_HOME/bin"
+PREFIX_MANPATH="$ANSIBLE_HOME/docs/man"
+
+expr "$PYTHONPATH" : "${PREFIX_PYTHONPATH}.*" > /dev/null || export PYTHONPATH="$PREFIX_PYTHONPATH:$PYTHONPATH"
+expr "$PATH" : "${PREFIX_PATH}.*" > /dev/null || export PATH="$PREFIX_PATH:$PATH"
+expr "$MANPATH" : "${PREFIX_MANPATH}.*" > /dev/null || export MANPATH="$PREFIX_MANPATH:$MANPATH"
+
+#
+# Generate egg_info so that pkg_resources works
+#
+
+# Do the work in a function so we don't repeat ourselves later
+gen_egg_info()
+{
+    if [ -e "$PREFIX_PYTHONPATH/ansible_tower_cli.egg-info" ] ; then
+        \rm -rf "$PREFIX_PYTHONPATH/ansible_tower_cli.egg-info"
+    fi
+    $PYTHON_BIN setup.py egg_info
+}
+
+if [ "$ANSIBLE_HOME" != "$PWD" ] ; then
+    current_dir="$PWD"
+else
+    current_dir="$ANSIBLE_HOME"
+fi
+(
+	cd "$ANSIBLE_HOME"
+	if [ "$verbosity" = silent ] ; then
+	    gen_egg_info > /dev/null 2>&1
+            find . -type f -name "*.pyc" -exec rm -f {} \; > /dev/null 2>&1
+	else
+	    gen_egg_info
+            find . -type f -name "*.pyc" -exec rm -f {} \;
+	fi
+	cd "$current_dir"
+)
+
+if [ "$verbosity" != silent ] ; then
+    cat <<- EOF
+	
+	Setting up Ansible Tower CLI to run out of checkout...
+	
+	PATH=$PATH
+	PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH
+	MANPATH=$MANPATH
+	
+	Remember, you may wish to specify your host file with -i
+	
+	Done!
+	
+	EOF
+fi
diff --git a/hacking/env-setup.fish b/hacking/env-setup.fish
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+#!/usr/bin/env fish
+# usage: . ./hacking/env-setup [-q]
+#    modifies environment for running Ansible Tower CLI from checkout
+set HACKING_DIR (dirname (status -f))
+set FULL_PATH (python -c "import os; print(os.path.realpath('$HACKING_DIR'))")
+set ANSIBLE_HOME (dirname $FULL_PATH)
+set PREFIX_PYTHONPATH $ANSIBLE_HOME/lib 
+set PREFIX_PATH $ANSIBLE_HOME/bin 
+set PREFIX_MANPATH $ANSIBLE_HOME/docs/man
+
+# set quiet flag
+if set -q argv
+    switch $argv
+    case '-q' '--quiet'
+        set QUIET "true"
+    case '*'
+    end
+end
+
+# Set PYTHONPATH
+if not set -q PYTHONPATH
+    set -gx PYTHONPATH $PREFIX_PYTHONPATH
+else
+    switch PYTHONPATH
+        case "$PREFIX_PYTHONPATH*"
+        case "*"
+            if not [ $QUIET ]
+                echo "Appending PYTHONPATH"
+            end
+            set -gx PYTHONPATH "$PREFIX_PYTHONPATH:$PYTHONPATH"
+    end
+end
+
+# Set PATH
+if not contains $PREFIX_PATH $PATH
+    set -gx PATH $PREFIX_PATH $PATH
+end
+
+# Set MANPATH
+if not contains $PREFIX_MANPATH $MANPATH
+    if not set -q MANPATH
+        set -gx MANPATH $PREFIX_MANPATH:
+    else
+        set -gx MANPATH $PREFIX_MANPATH $MANPATH
+    end
+end
+
+set -gx ANSIBLE_LIBRARY $ANSIBLE_HOME/library
+
+# Generate egg_info so that pkg_resources works
+pushd $ANSIBLE_HOME
+if [ $QUIET ]
+    python setup.py -q egg_info
+else
+    python setup.py egg_info
+end
+if test -e $PREFIX_PYTHONPATH/ansible*.egg-info
+    rm -r $PREFIX_PYTHONPATH/ansible*.egg-info
+end
+mv ansible*egg-info $PREFIX_PYTHONPATH
+find . -type f -name "*.pyc" -delete
+popd
+
+
+if not [ $QUIET ]
+    echo ""
+    echo "Setting up Ansible Tower CLI to run out of checkout..."
+    echo ""
+    echo "PATH=$PATH"
+    echo "PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH"
+    echo "ANSIBLE_LIBRARY=$ANSIBLE_LIBRARY"
+    echo "MANPATH=$MANPATH"
+    echo ""
+    echo "Remember, you may wish to specify your host file with -i"
+    echo ""
+    echo "Done!"
+    echo ""
+end
+
+set -e QUIET