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diff --git a/pep-git.txt b/pep-git.txt
index a4b957b..c123c38 100644
--- a/pep-git.txt
+++ b/pep-git.txt
@@ -75,19 +75,25 @@ Download and installation
 Unix users: download and install using your package manager.
 
 Microsoft Windows: download `git-for-windows
-<https://git-for-windows.github.io/>`_.
+<https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases>`_ or `msysGit
+<https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/releases>`_.
 
 MacOS X: use git installed with `XCode
-<https://developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads/>`_ or download
+<https://developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads/>`_ or download from
+`MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=git>`_ or
 `git-osx-installer
-<http://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/files/>`_.
+<http://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/files/>`_ or
+install git with `Homebrew <http://brew.sh/>`_: ``brew install git``.
+
+`Atlassins's SourceTree <https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/>`_ is a free
+Git and Mercurial GUI client for Windows or Mac.
 
 Initial configuration
 ---------------------
 
 This simple code is often appears in documentation, but it is
 important so let repeat it here. Git marks every commit with author
-and commiter names/emails, so configure your real name and preferred
+and committer names/emails, so configure your real name and preferred
 email::
 
     $ git config --global user.name "User Name"
@@ -101,13 +107,25 @@ Examples of git commands in this PEP use the following approach. It is
 supposed that you, the user, works with a local repository named
 ``python`` that has an upstream remote repo named ``origin``. Your
 local repo has two branches ``v1`` and ``v2``. For most examples the
-currently checked out branch is ``v2``. That is, it's assumed you did
-something like that::
+currently checked out branch is ``v2``. That is, it's assumed you have
+done something like that::
+
+    $ git clone -b v2 http://git.python.org/python.git
+    $ cd python
+    $ git branch v1 origin/v1
+
+The last command creates a new local branch v1 and sets
+remotes/origin/v1 as its upstream remote branch.
+
+The same result can achieved with commands::
 
     $ git clone -b v1 http://git.python.org/python.git
     $ cd python
-    $ git fetch origin v2:v2
-    $ git checkout -b v2
+    $ git checkout --track origin/v2
+
+The last command creates a new local branch v2, sets
+remotes/origin/v2 as its upstream remote branch and checks it out into
+the working directory.
 
 
 Branches and branches
@@ -146,10 +164,10 @@ To see local and remote branches (and tags) pointing to commits::
     $ git log --decorate
 
 You never do your own development on remote branches. You create a
-local branch that has a remote branch as an 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.
+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.
 
 When you do an initial clone like this::
 
@@ -185,7 +203,7 @@ branch BRANCH and its upstream remote branch. But it refuses to update
 branches in case of non-fast-forward. And it refuses to update the
 current branch.
 
-The first command is used internall by ``git pull``.
+The first command is used internally by ``git pull``.
 
 ::
 
@@ -290,7 +308,7 @@ Commit editing and caveats
 ==========================
 
 A warning not to edit published (pushed) commits also appears in
-documentation but it's also repeated here as it's very important.
+documentation but it's repeated here anyway as it's very important.
 
 It is possible to recover from forced push but it's PITA for the
 entire team. Please avoid it.
@@ -325,7 +343,7 @@ safely edit, remove, reorder, combine and split commits that hasn't
 been pushed yet. You can even push commits to your own (backup) repo,
 edit them later and force-push edited commits to replace what has
 already been pushed. Not a problem until commits are in a public
-repository.
+or shared repository.
 
 
 Undo