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 ## Status
 
-The tool is quite feature-complete, but some important features like (the
+The tool is fairly feature-complete, but some important features like (the
 equivalent of) `git blame` are not yet supported. There
 are also several performance bugs. It's also likely that workflows and setups
 different from what the core developers use are not well supported.