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 We're going to follow the instructions in part two of [The easiest way to get started with Svelte](/blog/the-easiest-way-to-get-started).
 
-First, we'll use npx to run [degit](https://github.com/Rich-Harris/degit), a program for cloning project templates from [GitHub](https://github.com) and other code storage websites. You don't have to use a project template, but it means you have to do a lot less setup work.
+First, we'll use npx to run [degit](https://github.com/Rich-Harris/degit), a program for cloning project templates from [GitHub](https://github.com) and other code storage websites. You don't have to use a project template, but it means you have to do a lot less setup work.  You will need to have [git](https://git-scm.com/) installed in order to use degit.  
 
 (Eventually you'll probably have to learn [git](https://git-scm.com/), which most programmers use to manage their projects. But you don't need to worry about it just yet.)