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diff --git a/README b/README
index 84c7281..bd4f17a 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -86,9 +86,9 @@ SYNOPSIS
 	$ ..hack..
 	$ git commit
 
-	## Create another topic branch on top of specified one and submit
+	## Create another topic branch on top of master and submit
 	## the resulting patch upstream
-	$ tg create -d master t/revlist/author-fixed
+	$ tg create t/revlist/author-fixed master
 	tg: Creating t/revlist/author-fixed base from master...
 	$ ..hack..
 	$ git commit
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 	Subject: [PATCH] Fix broken revlist --author when --fixed-string
 
 	## Create another topic branch depending on two others non-trivially
-	$ tg create -d t/revlist/author-fixed,t/gitweb/nifty-links t/whatever
+	$ tg create t/whatever t/revlist/author-fixed t/gitweb/nifty-links
 	tg: Creating t/whatever base from t/revlist/author-fixed...
 	tg: Merging t/whatever base with t/gitweb/nifty-links...
 	Merge failed!
@@ -199,11 +199,14 @@ tg create
 ~~~~~~~~~
 	Create a new TopGit-controlled topic branch of a given name
 	(required argument) and switch to it. If no dependencies
-	are specified using the '-d' paremeter, the current branch
-	is assumed to be the only dependency.
+	are specified (by extra arguments passed after the first one),
+	the current branch is assumed to be the only dependency.
 
 	After `tg create`, you should insert the patch description
-	to the '.topmsg' file.
+	to the '.topmsg' file, which will already contain some
+	pre-filled bits. You can set topgit.to, topgit.cc and topgit.bcc
+	configuration variables in order to have `tg create`
+	add these headers with given default values to '.topmsg'.
 
 	The main task of `tg create` is to set up the topic branch
 	base from the dependencies. This may fail due to merge conflicts.
@@ -212,10 +215,6 @@ tg create
 	it will detect that you are on a topic branch base ref and
 	resume the topic branch creation operation.
 
-	'-d':
-		Manually specified dependencies. A comma- or
-		space-separated list of branch names.
-
 tg delete
 ~~~~~~~~~
 	Remove a TopGit-controlled topic branch of given name
@@ -246,7 +245,7 @@ tg patch
 
 	The patch is by default simply dumped to stdout. In the future,
 	tg patch will be able to automatically send the patches by mail
-	or save them to files.
+	or save them to files. (TODO)
 
 	TODO: tg patch -i to base at index instead of branch,
 		-w for working tree
@@ -256,6 +255,7 @@ tg summary
 	Show overview of all TopGit-tracked topic branches and their
 	up-to-date status ('0' marks that it introduces no own changes,
 	'D' marks that it is out-of-date wrt. its dependencies,
+	'!' marks that it has missing dependencies (even recursively),
 	'B' marks that it is out-of-date wrt. its base).
 
 	TODO: Speed up by an order of magnitude
@@ -276,6 +276,9 @@ tg update
 
 TODO: Some infrastructure for sharing topic branches between
 	repositories easily
+TODO: tg depend for adding/removing dependencies smoothly
+TODO: tg collapse for creating a one-commit-per-patch tidied up
+	history (for pulling by upstream)
 
 
 IMPLEMENTATION
@@ -306,6 +309,8 @@ mail headers are inserted and the patch itself is appended.
 Thus, as your patches evolve, you can record nuances like whether
 the paricular patch should have To-list/Cc-maintainer or vice
 versa and similar nuances, if your project is into that.
+From is prefilled from your current GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT, the To,
+Cc and Bcc can be prefilled from optional topgit.{to,cc,bcc}.
 
 	.topdeps: Contains the one-per-line list of branches
 your patch depends on, pre-seeded with `tg create`. (Continuously