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 ## Building And Developing
 
 See our [Hacking guide](https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/contributing/hacking.html) in our manual for instruction on how to
-to set up a development environment and build Nix from source.
+ set up a development environment and build Nix from source.
 
 ## Contributing