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	<title>Preface</title>
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		<para>
			When working on a project, either an open-source project where
			several people review your code, or a commercial
			project where you sell a component with your source code, there will
			be people and customers who find bugs or want to improve your
			project. To do that they send you patches which you have to review
			and decide if you want to apply them.
		</para>
		<para>
			TortoiseGitMerge helps you with both those tasks:
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					<para>
						Reviewing patches
					</para>
				</listitem>
				<listitem>
					<para>
						Applying the patches
					</para>
				</listitem>
			</itemizedlist>
		</para>
		<para>
			TortoiseGitMerge also helps you to sort out conflicted files which can
			occur if you're working with a source control system and others
			are working on the same files as you.
		</para>
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		<title>TortoiseGitMerge is free!</title>
		<para>
			TortoiseGitMerge is free. You don't have to pay for it, you can use it
			any way you want. It is developed under the GP license (GPL).
		</para>
		<para>
			TortoiseGitMerge is an Open Source project. That means you have full
			read access to the source code of this program. You can browse it
			on this link
			<ulink url="https://tortoisegit.org/sourcecode">
				<citetitle>https://tortoisegit.org/sourcecode</citetitle>
			</ulink>.
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	<sect1 id="tme-preface-acknowledgements">
		<title>Acknowledgments</title>
		<para>
			TortoiseGitMerge is a port of TortoiseMerge (from TortoiseSVN project).
		</para>
		<para>
			<variablelist>
				<varlistentry>
					<term>
						Stefan Küng
					</term>
					<listitem>
						<para>
							for the hard work on TortoiseMerge
						</para>
					</listitem>
				</varlistentry>
				<varlistentry>
					<term>
						Lübbe Onken
					</term>
					<listitem>
						<para>
							for the beautiful icons, logo, bug hunting and
							taking care of the documentation
						</para>
					</listitem>
				</varlistentry>
				<varlistentry>
					<term>
						Frank Li and Sven Strickroth
					</term>
					<listitem>
						<para>
							for the porting TortoiseMerge to TortoiseGitMerge, the (Tortoise)Git version.
						</para>
					</listitem>
				</varlistentry>
				<varlistentry>
					<term>
						The Tigris Style project
					</term>
					<listitem>
						<para>
							for some of the styles which are reused in this
							documentation
						</para>
					</listitem>
				</varlistentry>
				<varlistentry>
					<term>
						Our Contributors
					</term>
					<listitem>
						<para>
							for the patches, bug reports and new ideas, and for
							helping others by answering questions on our mailing list.
						</para>
					</listitem>
				</varlistentry>
				<varlistentry>
					<term>
						Our Donators
					</term>
					<listitem>
						<para>
							for many hours of joy with the music they sent us
						</para>
					</listitem>
				</varlistentry>
			</variablelist>
		</para>
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