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                 for the supported distributions.</para></listitem>
             <listitem id='local-yp-release'><para><emphasis>Yocto Project Release:</emphasis>  
                 You need a release of the Yocto Project.  
-                You can get set up with local Yocto Project files one of two ways depending on whether you 
+                You can get set up with local 
+                <link linkend='yocto-project-files'>Yocto Project Files</link> one of two ways 
+                depending on whether you 
                 are going to be contributing back into the Yocto Project source repository or not.
                 <note>
                     Regardless of the method you use, this manual refers to the resulting 
@@ -89,7 +91,9 @@
                         back into the Yocto Project, you should use Git commands to set up a local 
                         Git repository of the Yocto Project files.  
                         Doing so creates a Git repository with a complete history of changes and allows 
-                        you to easily submit your changes upstream to the project.</para>
+                        you to easily submit your changes upstream to the project.
+                        Because you cloned the repository, you have access to all the Yocto Project development
+                        branches and tag names used in the upstream repository.</para>
                        <para>The following transcript shows how to clone the Yocto Project files'  
                        Git repository into the current working directory.  
                        The command creates the repository in a directory named <filename>poky</filename>.