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@@ -70,11 +70,13 @@
 
 === Provenance ===
 
-Good changes should not be made "on top of" bad changes. New commits
-should be given [http://code.google.com/p/soc/source/list?num=300 the head of Melange's master branch]
+Because integrating a git commit means integrating every commit from
+which it is descended, good changes should not be made "on top of"
+bad changes. New commits should be given
+[http://code.google.com/p/soc/source/list?num=300 the head of Melange's master branch]
 as their parent commit unless some particular complexity germane to
 the change being made requires some other commit (or commits) to be
-chosen as parents of the new commit.
+chosen as parent(s) of the new commit.
 
 == Code Reviews ==
 
@@ -110,4 +112,4 @@
 _Copyright 2014 Google Inc._
 _This work is licensed under a_
 [http://soc.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/html/licenses/cc-by-attribution-2_5.html Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License].
-[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ http://soc.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/html/licenses/cc-by-2_5-88x31.png]
+[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ http://soc.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/html/licenses/cc-by-2_5-88x31.png]
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