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diff --git a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
index 2a66063e44..30ae63d74d 100755
--- a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
+++ b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
@@ -23,6 +23,13 @@
# possible for the email to be from someone other than the person doing the
# push.
#
+# To help with debugging and use on pre-v1.5.1 git servers, this script will
+# also obey the interface of hooks/update, taking its arguments on the
+# command line. Unfortunately, hooks/update is called once for each ref.
+# To avoid firing one email per ref, this script just prints its output to
+# the screen when used in this mode. The output can then be redirected if
+# wanted.
+#
# Config
# ------
# hooks.mailinglist
@@ -315,8 +322,8 @@ generate_update_branch_email()
# "remotes/" will be ignored as well.
# List all of the revisions that were removed by this update, in a
- # fast forward update, this list will be empty, because rev-list O
- # ^N is empty. For a non fast forward, O ^N is the list of removed
+ # fast-forward update, this list will be empty, because rev-list O
+ # ^N is empty. For a non-fast-forward, O ^N is the list of removed
# revisions
fast_forward=""
rev=""
@@ -411,7 +418,7 @@ generate_update_branch_email()
# revision because the base is effectively a random revision at this
# point - the user will be interested in what this revision changed
# - including the undoing of previous revisions in the case of
- # non-fast forward updates.
+ # non-fast-forward updates.
echo ""
echo "Summary of changes:"
git diff-tree --stat --summary --find-copies-harder $oldrev..$newrev