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+# git
+
+## Setup
+- Login with your username found on your name badge and set the initial password for your account:  https://git.aspp.school/user/login
+- You'll have to type that password many many times this week: choose wisely!
+- We will use the [exercise](exercise.md) in the repo for the rest of the lecture
+- find a partner to do pair-programming for this lecture by finding someone with the same tarot card as you
+- before starting, make yourself acquainted with the meanining and the power of the tarot cards: carefully read [this booklet](https://aspp.school/wiki/_media/tarot-runic.pdf)
+
+## A cautionary quote
+
+> My first instinct is to sell all my computers, fake my own death, move to another planet, and reinvent computing from scratch, rather than try to understand Git.
+> 
+>    I rarely actually do that, mind you. But the urge is there.
+
+— Lars Wirzenius (Linux kernel developer)
+