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 ### Installation for developers
 
-For developers you need to `git clone` the GitHub repository, fork it, git add, git commit, git push and merge request your changes.
+For developers you need to fork, `git clone` the GitHub repository, git add, git commit, git push and merge request your changes.
 
 ```
 git clone https://github.com/gdsfactory/ubc.git