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 ## Cloning the repository
 
 When cloning the Requests repository, you may need to add the `-c
-fetch.fsck.badTimezone=ignore` flag to avoid an error about a bad commit (see
+fetch.fsck.badTimezone=ignore` flag to avoid an error about a bad commit timestamp (see
 [this issue](https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/2690) for more background):
 
 ```shell