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 `FETCH_HEAD` records the branch which you fetched from a remote repository
 with your last `git fetch` invocation.
 `ORIG_HEAD` is created by commands that move your `HEAD` in a drastic
-way, to record the position of the `HEAD` before their operation, so that
+way (`git am`, `git merge`, `git rebase`, `git reset`),
+to record the position of the `HEAD` before their operation, so that
 you can easily change the tip of the branch back to the state before you ran
 them.
 `MERGE_HEAD` records the commit(s) which you are merging into your branch