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 Contributing to reclass
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Conttributions to reclass are very welcome. Since I prefer to keep a somewhat
-clean history, I will not merge pull requests. Please send your patches using
-git-format-patch and git-send-e-mail to reclass@pobox.madduck.net.
+clean history, I will not just merge pull request.
+
+You can submit pull requests, of course, and I'll rebase them onto HEAD before
+merging. Or send your patches using git-format-patch and git-send-e-mail to
+reclass@pobox.madduck.net.
 
 I have added rudimentary unit tests, and it would be nice if you could submit
 your changes with appropriate changes to the tests. To run tests, invoke