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diff --git a/Documentation/glossary.txt b/Documentation/glossary.txt
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--- a/Documentation/glossary.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary.txt
@@ -188,11 +188,12 @@ octopus::
        predator.
 
 origin::
-       The default upstream tracking branch. Most projects have at
+       The default upstream repository. Most projects have at
        least one upstream project which they track. By default
        'origin' is used for that purpose.  New upstream updates
-       will be fetched into this branch; you should never commit
-       to it yourself.
+       will be fetched into remote tracking branches named
+       origin/name-of-upstream-branch, which you can see using
+       "git branch -r".
 
 pack::
        A set of objects which have been compressed into one file (to save
@@ -234,8 +235,11 @@ push::
        local head, the push fails.
 
 reachable::
-       An object is reachable from a ref/commit/tree/tag, if there is a
-       chain leading from the latter to the former.
+       All of the ancestors of a given commit are said to be reachable from
+       that commit.  More generally, one object is reachable from another if
+       we can reach the one from the other by a chain that follows tags to
+       whatever they tag, commits to their parents or trees, and trees to the
+       trees or blobs that they contain.
 
 rebase::
        To clean a branch by starting from the head of the main line of