Confusing language in man page

From: Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 14, 2007, 18:08 UTC
Message-ID: <a781481a0707141108g4664a627w94e0d21c3629cb49@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

[ I'm using Fedora's latest package. ]

>From git-checkout(1) and git-branch(1):

-l     Create the new branch's ref log. This activates recording of
all changes to made the
       branch ref, enabling use of date

I'd be glad if someone could explain that a bit more verbosely in the man page (or just here in a reply), or at least make that grammatically correct/readable :-)

Thanks, Satyam