Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "If the repository is public, it will create a folder and everything inside the folder."

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

Erik@server:~/git/myRepoName$ git log
commit df9448ff53864d8cfc6f78fd8831fd363d63a28b
Author: Erik <erik@mymail.com>
Date:   Thu July 10 06:44:47 2014 +0000

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or ...

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