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 Acknowledgements
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-The earlies versions of the [packfile reader](https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/src-d/go-git.v2/formats/packfile) is based on [git-chain](https://github.com/gitchain/gitchain/blob/master/git/pack.go) project done by [@yrashk](https://github.com/yrashk)
+The earlier versions of the [packfile reader](https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/src-d/go-git.v2/formats/packfile) are based on [git-chain](https://github.com/gitchain/gitchain/blob/master/git/pack.go), project done by [@yrashk](https://github.com/yrashk)
 
 
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