+Alternately, if you don't want to worry about using TopGit on your system
+you can simply clone the repo and then checkout the origin/top branch. At
+this point you can simply create a new branch to track your changes. You
+can then feed your patch back to the official repo maintainers to be merged
+in to the proper topic branches.
+
+ > git clone git://eris.llnl.gov/zfs.git
+ > cd zfs
+ > git checkout origin/top
+ > git checkout -b <new_branch_name>
+