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 Remote references differ from branches (`refs/heads` references) mainly in that they're considered read-only.
-You can `git checkout` to one, but Git won't symolically reference HEAD to one, so you'll never update it with a `commit` command.
+You can `git checkout` to one, but Git won't symbolically reference HEAD to one, so you'll never update it with a `commit` command.
 Git manages them as bookmarks to the last known state of where those branches were on those servers.