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@@ -121,15 +121,16 @@ This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
    [[toggleable id=git text="""
        When using Git, you probably want to set up two repositories, of which
        one should be bare (meaning that it does not have a working tree
-       checked out). We call the bare repository the "repo" and the other the
-       "srcdir". There are [other
+       checked out). We call the bare repository the "repository" and the
+       other will be the "srcdir" (which `ikiwiki` uses to compile the wiki).
+       There are [other
        ways](http://blog.madduck.net/vcs/2007.07.11_publishing-git-repositories)
        to do the following, but this might be easiest:
 
                        REPOSITORY=~/wiki.git
                        cd $SRCDIR
                        git init
-                       echo .ikiwiki > .gitignore
+                       echo /.ikiwiki > .gitignore
                        git add .
                        git commit -m'Initial commit'
                        # if you expect $REPOSITORY to receive pushs from multiple