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@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ As discussed above, when issuing pull requests, please ensure that your commit h
 From the command line you can check this using:
 
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-log --graph --pretty=oneline
+git log --graph --pretty=oneline
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 As this may cause lots of typing, we recommend creating a global alias, e.g. `git logg` for this: