diff --git a/doc/todo/parallel_possibilities.mdwn b/doc/todo/parallel_possibilities.mdwn
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@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ Anyway, each git-annex command is broken down into a series of independant
 actions, which has some potential for parallelism.
 
 Each action has 3 distinct phases, basically "check", "perform", and
-"cleanup". The perform actions are not parellizable; the cleanup may be,
-and the check should be easily parallelizable, although they may access the
-disk or run minor git query commands, so would probably not want to run
-too many of them at once.
+"cleanup". The perform actions are probably parellizable; the cleanup may be
+(but not if it has to run git commands to stage state; it can queue
+commands though); the check should be easily parallelizable, although they
+may access the disk or run minor git query commands, so would probably not
+want to run too many of them at once.