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 <h2 id="git">Configuring git</h2>
 <p>On a new machine you need to configure your git identity:
   <pre><code>git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
-  
 git config --global user.name "Your Name"
+git config --global pull.rebase true
 </pre></code>
 
+<p>We use pull.rebase as this seems to work best with our repos and the way we work.
 <h2 id="python">Installing python</h2>
 <a href="https://xkcd.com/1987/"><img src="https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/python_environment.png" align="right" hspace="20"  width="230" alt='XKCD python install'></a>