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provisioning so that systems are rebuilt cleanly. CUYC (who also use Django) have a bash script which sets up a new django
development system. We should copy that in the first instance. Alas, we haven't got around to doing any of this yet.
+Configuring git
+On a new machine you need to configure your git identity:
+
git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
+
+git config --global user.name "Your Name"
+
Installing python
