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diff --git a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt
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@@ -507,6 +507,9 @@ documentation is consistent with other Git and UNIX manpages; this makes life
easier for your user, who can skip to the section they know contains the
information they need.
+NOTE: Before trying to build the docs, make sure you have the package `asciidoc`
+installed.
+
Now that you've written your manpage, you'll need to build it explicitly. We
convert your AsciiDoc to troff which is man-readable like so:
@@ -522,8 +525,6 @@ $ make -C Documentation/ git-psuh.1
$ man Documentation/git-psuh.1
----
-NOTE: You may need to install the package `asciidoc` to get this to work.
-
While this isn't as satisfying as running through `git help`, you can at least
check that your help page looks right.