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 Here is a basic outline of how to write Git instructions in the repository!
 
 **Tell Git who you are**	
-Configure the author name and email address to be used with your commits.
+Configure the author name and email address to be used with your comments.
 
 Note that Git strips some characters (for example trailing periods) from user.name.
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