diff --git a/docs/development.rst b/docs/development.rst
index 8fa3ba205..50e4f0592 100644
--- a/docs/development.rst
+++ b/docs/development.rst
@@ -214,6 +214,16 @@ If you encounter issues, see also our `Vagrantfile` for details.
           without external dependencies.
 
 
+Merging maintenance branches
+----------------------------
+
+As mentioned above bug fixes will usually be merged into a maintenance branch (x.y-maint) and then
+merged back into the master branch. Large diffs between these branches can make automatic merges troublesome,
+therefore we recommend to use these merge parameters::
+
+  git merge 1.0-maint -s recursive -X rename-threshold=20%
+
+
 Creating a new release
 ----------------------
 
diff --git a/src/borg/item.py b/src/borg/item.py
index 84d5085ec..e44e4367b 100644
--- a/src/borg/item.py
+++ b/src/borg/item.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ class PropDict:
     When "packing" a dict, ie. you have a dict with some data and want to convert it into an instance,
     then use eg. Item({'a': 1, ...}). This way all keys in your dictionary are validated.
 
-    When "unpacking", that is you've read a dictionary with some data from somewhere (eg mspack),
+    When "unpacking", that is you've read a dictionary with some data from somewhere (eg. msgpack),
     then use eg. Item(internal_dict={...}). This does not validate the keys, therefore unknown keys
     are ignored instead of causing an error.
     """