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  then you watch the code, create a branch:
  git checkout -b `bugfix/nasty_one`

Please remove backticks from the command. What if you called the branch `poweroff` instead and a naive reader copy/pasted the command into her terminal?

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  poweroff: Need to be root

One might have sudo privileges configured via /etc/sudoers (It's the default on AWS EC2 instances!)

Yes, but you still need to call "sudo poweroff", not just "poweroff".

See user chainsaw10. Anecdotally, on my vanilla Arch systems, I can run "poweroff" without being root, and without sudo, and the computers will end all processes and turn off.

Some recent distros will actually let you run that as yourself, without root, if you're physically present at the machine. It's convenient for personal machines.

Thanks, fixed

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