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@@ -82,14 +82,19 @@ must know this is the expected usage pattern for a branch.
 [NOTE]
 You never do your own development on branches that appear
 on the right hand side of a <refspec> colon on `Pull:` lines;
-they are to be updated by `git-fetch`.  The corollary is that
-a local branch should be introduced and named on a <refspec>
-right-hand-side if you intend to do development derived from
-that branch.
-This leads to the common `Pull: master:origin` mapping of a
-remote `master` branch to a local `origin` branch, which
-is then merged to a local development branch, again typically
-named `master`.
+they are to be updated by `git-fetch`.  If you intend to do
+development derived from a remote branch `B`, have a `Pull:`
+line to track it (i.e. `Pull: B:remote-B`), and have a separate
+branch `my-B` to do your development on top of it.  The latter
+is created by `git branch my-B remote-B` (or its equivalent `git
+checkout -b my-B remote-B`).  Run `git fetch` to keep track of
+the progress of the remote side, and when you see something new
+on the remote branch, merge it into your development branch with
+`git pull . remote-B`, while you are on `my-B` branch.
+The common `Pull: master:origin` mapping of a remote `master`
+branch to a local `origin` branch, which is then merged to a
+ocal development branch, again typically named `master`, is made
+when you run `git clone` for you to follow this pattern.
 +
 [NOTE]
 There is a difference between listing multiple <refspec>