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 When you installed Talisman, it must have created a pre-commit or pre-push hook (as selected) in your repository during installation.
 
 You can remove the hook manually by deleting the Talisman pre-commit or pre-push hook from .git/hooks folder in repository.
-
-# Contributing to Talisman
-
-## Developing locally
-
-To contribute to Talisman, you need a working golang development
-environment. Check [this link](https://golang.org/doc/install) to help
-you get started with that.
-
-Talisman now uses go modules (GO111MODULE=on) to manage dependencies
-
-Once you have go 1.11 installed and setup, clone the talisman repository. In your
-working copy, fetch the dependencies by having go mod fetch them for
-you.
-
-```` GO111MODULE=on go mod vendor ````
-
-To run tests ```` GO111MODULE=on go test -mod=vendor ./...  ````
-
-To build Talisman, we can use [gox](https://github.com/mitchellh/gox):
-
-```` gox -osarch="darwin/amd64 linux/386 linux/amd64" ````
-
-Convenince scripts ```./build``` and ```./clean``` perform build and clean-up as mentioned above.
-
-
-## Releasing
-
-* Follow the instructions at the end of 'Developing locally' to build the binaries
-* Bump the [version in install.sh](https://github.com/thoughtworks/talisman/blob/d4b1b1d11137dbb173bf681a03f16183a9d82255/install.sh#L10) according to [semver](https://semver.org/) conventions
-* Update the [expected hashes in install.sh](https://github.com/thoughtworks/talisman/blob/d4b1b1d11137dbb173bf681a03f16183a9d82255/install.sh#L16-L18) to match the new binaries you just created (`shasum -b -a256 ...`)
-* Make release commit and tag with the new version prefixed by `v` (like `git tag v0.3.0`)
-* Push your release commit and tag: `git push && git push --tags`
-* [Create a new release in github](https://github.com/thoughtworks/talisman/releases/new), filling in the new commit tag you just created
-* Update the install script hosted on github pages: `git checkout gh-pages`, `git checkout master -- install.sh`, `git commit -m ...`
-
-The latest version will now be accessible to anyone who builds their own binaries, downloads binaries directly from github releases, or uses the install script from the website.
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+# Contributing to Talisman
+
+## Developing locally
+
+To contribute to Talisman, you need a working golang development
+environment. Check [this link](https://golang.org/doc/install) to help
+you get started with that.
+
+Talisman now uses go modules (GO111MODULE=on) to manage dependencies
+
+Once you have go 1.11 installed and setup, clone the talisman repository. In your
+working copy, fetch the dependencies by having go mod fetch them for
+you.
+
+```` GO111MODULE=on go mod vendor ````
+
+To run tests ```` GO111MODULE=on go test -mod=vendor ./...  ````
+
+To build Talisman, we can use [gox](https://github.com/mitchellh/gox):
+
+```` gox -osarch="darwin/amd64 linux/386 linux/amd64" ````
+
+Convenience scripts ```./build``` and ```./clean``` perform build and clean-up as mentioned above.
+
+## Releasing
+
+* Follow the instructions at the end of 'Developing locally' to build the binaries
+* Bump the [version in install.sh](https://github.com/thoughtworks/talisman/blob/d4b1b1d11137dbb173bf681a03f16183a9d82255/install.sh#L10) according to [semver](https://semver.org/) conventions
+* Update the [expected hashes in install.sh](https://github.com/thoughtworks/talisman/blob/d4b1b1d11137dbb173bf681a03f16183a9d82255/install.sh#L16-L18) to match the new binaries you just created (`shasum -b -a256 ...`)
+* Make release commit and tag with the new version prefixed by `v` (like `git tag v0.3.0`)
+* Push your release commit and tag: `git push && git push --tags`
+* [Create a new release in github](https://github.com/thoughtworks/talisman/releases/new), filling in the new commit tag you just created
+* Update the install script hosted on github pages: `git checkout gh-pages`, `git checkout master -- install.sh`, `git commit -m ...`
+
+The latest version will now be accessible to anyone who builds their own binaries, downloads binaries directly from github releases, or uses the install script from the website.
+