diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index facf46200d5f8af840db1b7fe5dfceb20cc30386..c77640fa9640cb8e30625702fa632ab0ec8b79ed 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ git installed. Installation ============ -On your VM, git is already installed. The remainder of this section -is for when you want to install git on another machine. We recommend -having git installed on your laptop or desktop computer. +If you already have git installed, you can skip the rest of this +section. We recommend installing git on any machine (laptop or +desktop) on which you expect to work. If you're on a Linux system, then it's somewhat likely that git is already installed; if not, you can use your favorite package manager @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ init ---- This creates a repository, either in an empty directory, or one already - containing code. Create a new directory on your VM, let's call it "testing": + containing code. Create a new directory, let's call it "testing": mkdir ~/testing @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ config git config --global user.email "your_email@example.com" Any subsequent commits will now have more useful attribution. Make sure you - do this on your VM (or anywhere else you use git)! + do this anywhere you use git! More Advanced Git Operations ============================