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+# Redirect site for `book.git-scm.com`
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+The idea is that this is a trivial GitHub Pages site that simply redirects
+https://book.git-scm.com/ to the ProGit book on https://git-scm.com/.
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+Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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