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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion book/02-git-basics/sections/getting-a-repository.asc
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Expand Up @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ $ git clone https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2
That creates a directory named `libgit2`, initializes a `.git` directory inside it, pulls down all the data for that repository, and checks out a working copy of the latest version.
If you go into the new `libgit2` directory that was just created, you'll see the project files in there, ready to be worked on or used.

If you want to clone the repository into a directory named something other than `libgit2`, you can specify that as the next command-line option:
If you want to clone the repository into a directory named something other than `libgit2`, you can specify the new directory name as an additional argument:

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=== Summary

At this point, you can do all the basic local Git operations – creating or cloning a repository, making changes, staging and committing those changes, and viewing the history of all the changes the repository has been through.
At this point, you can do all the basic local Git operations -- creating or cloning a repository, making changes, staging and committing those changes, and viewing the history of all the changes the repository has been through.
Next, we'll cover Git's killer feature: its branching model.