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     The commit message is very important. Since much of the power of
     Git is this flexibility in carefully crafting commits locally and then
     sharing them later, it is very powerful to be able to write three or
-    four commits of logically seperate changes so that your work may be more
+    four commits of logically separate changes so that your work may be more
     easily peer reviewed.  Since there is a seperation between committing and
     pushing those changes, do take the time to make it easier for the people
     you are working with to see what you've done by putting each logically 
-    seperate change in a seperate commit with a nice commit message so it
+    separate change in a separate commit with a nice commit message so it
     is easier for them to see what you are doing and why.</p>
 
     <h4>
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     <code>git reset HEAD -- file</code>.  Technically here you don't have to
     add the <code>--</code> - it is used to tell Git when you have stopped
     listing options and are now listing file paths, but it's probably good to
-    get into the habit of using it to seperate options from paths even if you
+    get into the habit of using it to separate options from paths even if you
     don't need to.
     </p>