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@@ -535,18 +535,18 @@ with the associated patches use the more complex (and much more
 powerful)
 
 ----------------
-$ git-whatchanged -p --root
+$ git-whatchanged -p
 ----------------
 
 and you will see exactly what has changed in the repository over its
 short history.
 
 [NOTE]
-The `\--root` flag is a flag to `git-diff-tree` to tell it to
-show the initial aka 'root' commit too. Normally you'd probably not
-want to see the initial import diff, but since the tutorial project
-was started from scratch and is so small, we use it to make the result
-a bit more interesting.
+When using the above two commands, the initial commit will be shown.
+If this is a problem because it is huge, you can hide it by setting
+the log.showroot configuration variable to false. Having this, you
+can still show it for each command just adding the `\--root` option,
+which is a flag for `git-diff-tree` accepted by both commands.
 
 With that, you should now be having some inkling of what git does, and
 can explore on your own.
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ particular state. You can, for example, do
 $ git diff my-first-tag
 ----------------
 
-to diff your current state against that tag (which at this point will
+to diff your current state against that tag which at this point will
 obviously be an empty diff, but if you continue to develop and commit
 stuff, you can use your tag as an "anchor-point" to see what has changed
 since you tagged it.
@@ -1090,11 +1090,6 @@ server like git Native transport does.  Any stock HTTP server
 that does not even support directory index would suffice.  But
 you must prepare your repository with `git-update-server-info`
 to help dumb transport downloaders.
-+
-There are (confusingly enough) `git-ssh-fetch` and `git-ssh-upload`
-programs, which are 'commit walkers'; they outlived their
-usefulness when git Native and SSH transports were introduced,
-and are not used by `git pull` or `git push` scripts.
 
 Once you fetch from the remote repository, you `merge` that
 with your current branch.
@@ -1157,7 +1152,7 @@ back to the earlier repository with "hello" and "example" file,
 and bring ourselves back to the pre-merge state:
 
 ------------
-$ git show-branch --more=3 master mybranch
+$ git show-branch --more=2 master mybranch
 ! [master] Merge work in mybranch
  * [mybranch] Merge work in mybranch
 --
@@ -1220,7 +1215,7 @@ $ git-read-tree -m -u $mb HEAD mybranch
 This is the same `git-read-tree` command we have already seen,
 but it takes three trees, unlike previous examples.  This reads
 the contents of each tree into different 'stage' in the index
-file (the first tree goes to stage 1, the second stage 2,
+file (the first tree goes to stage 1, the second to stage 2,
 etc.).  After reading three trees into three stages, the paths
 that are the same in all three stages are 'collapsed' into stage
 0.  Also paths that are the same in two of three stages are