Merge branch 'maint'

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@@ -18,12 +18,22 @@ People needing to do actual development will also want to read
 Further chapters cover more specialized topics.
 
 Comprehensive reference documentation is available through the man
-pages.  For a command such as "git clone <repo>", just use
+pages, or linkgit:git-help[1] command.  For example, for the command
+"git clone <repo>", you can either use:
 
 ------------------------------------------------
 $ man git-clone
 ------------------------------------------------
 
+or:
+
+------------------------------------------------
+$ git help clone
+------------------------------------------------
+
+With the latter, you can use the manual viewer of your choice; see
+linkgit:git-help[1] for more information.
+
 See also <<git-quick-start>> for a brief overview of git commands,
 without any explanation.
 
@@ -49,7 +59,7 @@ project in mind, here are some interesting examples:
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        # git itself (approx. 10MB download):
 $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
-       # the linux kernel (approx. 150MB download):
+       # the Linux kernel (approx. 150MB download):
 $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
 ------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -999,7 +1009,7 @@ $ git init
 If you have some initial content (say, a tarball):
 
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-$ tar -xzvf project.tar.gz
+$ tar xzvf project.tar.gz
 $ cd project
 $ git init
 $ git add . # include everything below ./ in the first commit:
@@ -1330,7 +1340,7 @@ These will display all commits which exist only on HEAD or on
 MERGE_HEAD, and which touch an unmerged file.
 
 You may also use linkgit:git-mergetool[1], which lets you merge the
-unmerged files using external tools such as emacs or kdiff3.
+unmerged files using external tools such as Emacs or kdiff3.
 
 Each time you resolve the conflicts in a file and update the index:
 
@@ -1497,7 +1507,7 @@ so on a different branch and then coming back), unstash the
 work-in-progress changes.
 
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-$ git stash "work in progress for foo feature"
+$ git stash save "work in progress for foo feature"
 ------------------------------------------------
 
 This command will save your changes away to the `stash`, and
@@ -4356,7 +4366,9 @@ $ git remote show example # get details
 * remote example
   URL: git://example.com/project.git
   Tracked remote branches
-    master next ...
+    master
+    next
+    ...
 $ git fetch example            # update branches from example
 $ git branch -r                        # list all remote branches
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