diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/git.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/git.pm
index 48e71aa9a..47e806209 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/git.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/git.pm
@@ -794,8 +794,6 @@ sub git_parse_changes {
 				die $@ if $@;
 				my $fh;
 				($fh, $path)=File::Temp::tempfile("XXXXXXXXXX", UNLINK => 1);
-				# Ensure we run this in the right place,
-				# see comments in rcs_receive.
 				my $cmd = ($no_chdir ? '' : "cd $config{srcdir} && ")
 					. "git show $detail->{sha1_to} > '$path'";
 				if (system($cmd) != 0) {
diff --git a/doc/todo/web_reversion.mdwn b/doc/todo/web_reversion.mdwn
index 4335b3fbf..212fd3a53 100644
--- a/doc/todo/web_reversion.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/web_reversion.mdwn
@@ -69,12 +69,5 @@ Peter Gammie has done an initial implementation of the above.
 
 >>> I have made my own revert branch and put a few fixes in there
 >>> [[!template id=gitbranch branch=origin/revert author="[[joey]]"]]
->>> (and fixed all the indention..). Issues I noticed but have not gotten
->>> to: --[[Joey]] 
+>>> (and fixed all the indention..). --[[Joey]] 
 >>>> Please change the git pointer above, then. I will work on your branch. -- [[peteg]]
-
->>> * I quite don't understand why one caller of `git_parse_changes`
->>>   needs it to chdir, and not the other one. It's running
->>>   in the same git repo either way, and git doesn't need
->>>   `git show` to run in a subdir at all..
->>>> I was aping (preserving) what was already there. I don't understand what you say about `git show` - it must run under $srcdir, surely? And empirically the CGI process wasn't in the right place. By all means simplify that. -- [[peteg]]