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 Landed two final changes before the release..
 
 First, made git-annex detect if any of the several long-running git process
-it talks to have died, and restart them. My stress test is reliably able to
-get at least `git cat-file` to crash, and while I don't know why (and
+it talks to have died, and, if yes, restart them. My stress test is reliably
+able to get at least `git cat-file` to crash, and while I don't know why (and
 obviously should follow up by getting a core dump and stack trace of it),
 the assistant needs to deal with this to be robust.
 
-Secondly, wrote rather a lot of java code to better open the web browser
-when the Android app is started. A thread listens for urls to be written to
-a fifo. Creating a fifo from fortran^Wjava code is .. interesting. Glad to
+Secondly, wrote rather a lot of Java code to better open the web browser
+when the Android app is started. A thread listens for URLs to be written to
+a FIFO. Creating a FIFO from fortran^Wjava code is .. interesting. Glad to
 see the back of the `am` command; it did me no favors.
 
 AFK