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 ** The Emacs repository
 
 Emacs development uses Git on Savannah for its main repository.
-Briefly, the following shell commands build and run Emacs from scratch:
+To configure Git for Emacs development, you can run the following:
 
         git config --global user.name 'Your Name'
         git config --global user.email 'your.name@example.com'
         git config --global transfer.fsckObjects true
+
+The following shell commands then build and run Emacs from scratch:
+
         git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git
         cd emacs
         ./autogen.sh