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authorJoshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>2020-08-10 05:20:30 -0400
committerLeo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>2020-08-27 16:04:12 -0400
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doc: Improve the instructions regarding `guix git authenticate`.
* doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Instruct the user to fetch
the 'keyring' branch. Fix a typo.

Signed-off-by: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
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@@ -42,13 +42,14 @@ git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
 
 @cindex authentication, of a Guix checkout
 How do you ensure that you obtained a genuine copy of the repository?
-To do that, run @command{guix git authenticate}, passing if the commit
+To do that, run @command{guix git authenticate}, passing it the commit
 and OpenPGP fingerprint of the @dfn{channel introduction}
 (@pxref{Invoking guix git authenticate}):
 
 @c The commit and fingerprint below must match those of the channel
 @c introduction in '%default-channels'.
 @example
+git fetch origin keyring:keyring
 guix git authenticate 9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddccfea34bad \
   "BBB0 2DDF 2CEA F6A8 0D1D  E643 A2A0 6DF2 A33A 54FA"
 @end example