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<h2 class="section"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Get-Git">2.1 Get Git</a></h2>

<p>You can get Git from <a href="http://git-scm.com/">http://git-scm.com/</a>
Most distribution and operating system provide a package for it.
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<h2 class="section"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Cloning-the-source-tree">2.2 Cloning the source tree</a></h2>

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<pre class="example">git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg &lt;target&gt;
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