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     <p class="aside">
-    It is also common to recusively add all files in a new project by specifying
+    It is also common to recursively add all files in a new project by specifying
     the current working directory like this: <code>git add .</code>.  Since Git
     will recursively add all files under a directory you give it, if you give it
     the current working directory, it will simply start tracking every file