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     * `setx OPENAI_API_KEY sk-...` in Windows PowerShell
   * Or include `openai-api-key: sk-...` in an `.aider.conf.yml` file in your home directory or at the root of your git repo, alongside the `.git` dir.
 
-3. Optionally, install [universal ctags](https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags). This is helpful if you plan to use aider and GPT-4 with repositories that have more than a handful of files.  This allows aider to build a [map of your entire git repo](https://aider.chat/docs/ctags.html) and share it with GPT to help it better understand and modify large codebases. See the [FAQ entry about ctags](https://aider.chat/docs/faq.html#how-do-i-get-ctags-working) for more info.
+3. Make sure you have git installed.
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+4. Optionally, install [universal ctags](https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags). This is helpful if you plan to use aider and GPT-4 with repositories that have more than a handful of files.  This allows aider to build a [map of your entire git repo](https://aider.chat/docs/ctags.html) and share it with GPT to help it better understand and modify large codebases. See the [FAQ entry about ctags](https://aider.chat/docs/faq.html#how-do-i-get-ctags-working) for more info.
 
 ## Usage