What you need for this book

To follow the examples used in this book, and make use of them on Git, you only need a computer and a valid Git installation. Git is available for free on every platform (such as Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X). While writing this book, the examples I use are based on the latest version of Git for Windows, which is 1.9.5.

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