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As you read through these pages, you might note that the instructions I provide here are focused on the Mac platform. Although I don’t want to ignore my friends on Windows, most of what I’ve learned about working with Drupal—particularly the command line stuff—simply works more efficiently on the Mac platform. Unfortunately, Windows adds a rather annoying layer of complexity to most of the command line stuff that you’ll see in these pages. Dear friends in the community have tried several times to work in Git and Drush on Windows, and all have fought with their machines for hours on end to get their configurations running. This complexity has led many of the developers I know to forgo Windows altogeth....