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@@ -204,8 +204,8 @@ To ensure easy collaboration, we have guidelines for using Git and GitHub.
 
 ### Commit messages
 
-You can read this section in the Git book to learn how to write good commit
-messages: https://git-scm.com/book/ch5-2.html.
+You can read [this section in the Git book](https://git-scm.com/book/ms/v2/Distributed-Git-Contributing-to-a-Project) to learn how to write good commit
+messages.
 
 In addition, here are a few examples for a summary line when committing to
 uutils: