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diff --git a/pep-git.txt b/pep-git.txt
index 4cbedf6..d131934 100644
--- a/pep-git.txt
+++ b/pep-git.txt
@@ -85,9 +85,8 @@ MacOS X: use git installed with `XCode
`_ or
install git with `Homebrew `_: ``brew install git``.
-`git-cola `_ is a sleek and
-powerful Git GUI written in Python and GPL licensed. Linux, Windows,
-MacOS X.
+`git-cola `_ is a Git GUI
+written in Python and GPL licensed. Linux, Windows, MacOS X.
`TortoiseGit `_ is a Windows Shell Interface
to Git based on TortoiseSVN; open source.
@@ -150,8 +149,8 @@ Labels, on the other hand, can be created, moved, renamed and deleted
freely.
-Remote repository and remote branches
-=====================================
+Remote repositories and remote branches
+=======================================
Another example of slightly misleading terminology. Remote
repositories are really remote, you access them via network (well, a
@@ -174,9 +173,10 @@ To see local and remote branches (and tags) pointing to commits::
You never do your own development on remote branches. You create a
local branch that has a remote branch as upstream and do development
-on that local branch. On push git updates remote branches, and on pull
-git updates remote branches and fast-forwards, merges or rebases local
-branches.
+on that local branch. On push git pushes commits to the remote repo
+and updates remote branches, on pull git fetches commits from the
+remote repo, updates remote branches and fast-forwards, merges or
+rebases local branches.
When you do an initial clone like this::
@@ -394,8 +394,8 @@ i.e. ``git checkout README`` restores README to the latest commit.
(Do not use ``git checkout`` to view a content of a file in a commit,
use ``git cat-file -p``; e.g. ``git cat-file -p HEAD~:path/to/README``).
-TODO: describe undo strategies: git reset, git revert,
-git reflog. "Commit early, commit often".
+TODO: describe undo strategies: git reset, git reflog, git revert.
+"Commit early, commit often".
How to undo a merge
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ feature was implemented should be in the commit messages.
Null-merges
===========
-Git has a builtin strategy for what Python core developers call
+Git has a builtin merge strategy for what Python core developers call
"null-merge"::
$ git merge -s ours v1 # null-merge v1 into v2