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 * git-annex is also not [boar](http://code.google.com/p/boar/),
   although it shares many of its goals and characteristics. Boar implements
-  its own version control system, rather than simply embarcing and
+  its own version control system, rather than simply embracing and
   extending git. And while boar supports distributed clones of a repository,
   it does not support keeping different files in different clones of the
   same repository, which git-annex does, and is an important feature for