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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion book/01-introduction/sections/installing.asc
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Expand Up @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ You can download that tool from the GitHub for Mac website, at http://mac.github
There are also a few ways to install Git on Windows.(((Windows, installing)))
The most official build is available for download on the Git website.
Just go to http://git-scm.com/download/win[] and the download will start automatically.
Note that this is a project called Git for Windows (also called msysGit), which is separate from Git itself; for more information on it, go to http://msysgit.github.io/[].
Note that this is a project called Git for Windows, which is separate from Git itself; for more information on it, go to https://git-for-windows.github.io/[].

Another easy way to get Git installed is by installing GitHub for Windows.
The installer includes a command line version of Git as well as the GUI.
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion book/04-git-server/sections/generating-ssh-key.asc
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Expand Up @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ config id_dsa.pub

You're looking for a pair of files named something like `id_dsa` or `id_rsa` and a matching file with a `.pub` extension.
The `.pub` file is your public key, and the other file is your private key.
If you don't have these files (or you don't even have a `.ssh` directory), you can create them by running a program called `ssh-keygen`, which is provided with the SSH package on Linux/Mac systems and comes with the MSysGit package on Windows:
If you don't have these files (or you don't even have a `.ssh` directory), you can create them by running a program called `ssh-keygen`, which is provided with the SSH package on Linux/Mac systems and comes with Git for Windows:

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