Make it more clear that the git-clone example is intended to actually be performed

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@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ installers. These include GitMe, a package to install the entire
 development environment necessary to work on improving the msysgit
 port of git, and WinGit, a package for installing just git itself
 without the development environment, (still in Alpha as of September
-2008).
+2007).
 
 ### 2.2  Getting started
 
@@ -146,13 +146,18 @@ a directory tree in your filesystem that git treats as
 special. You can rename or delete a repository any time you like,
 using either the command line or your file browser.
 
-#### 2.3.1  Making a local copy of a repository
+#### 2.3.1  Creating a local copy of a remote repository
 
-Copying a repository is just a little bit special. While you could use
-a normal file copying command to make a copy of a repository, it’s
-best to use a built-in command that git provides. This command
-is called “git clone”, because it creates an identical copy of an
-existing repository.
+As suggested, a repository can be copied through normal file-copying
+commands. But git also provides a "git clone" tool for copying a
+repository. This provides a means of copying a repository over the
+network, and is also useful with a local repository since it is much
+more efficient than creating a normal copy, (creating a local clones
+is blazingly fast).
+
+We've assembled a simple repository that will be used in the examples
+throughout this chapter. Go ahead and clone this repository now so
+that you will be able to follow along:
 
        $ git clone git://cworth.org/git/hello
        Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/hello/.git/
@@ -339,7 +344,7 @@ in the current branch, "HEAD~", refers to the previous commit, and
 
 Another useful syntax is .. which can be used to specify a range of
 commits. So "origin..master" specifies everything that has been
-committed to master since it derived from origin.
+committed to master since it diverged from origin.
 
 #### 2.4.3  Viewing specific revisions