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An epoch's root is pinned. A remake's is its epoch's ID, the hash of its snapshot. The
first epoch's is its genesis change, which its genesis node logs (`The swarm's root`)
and `GET /admin/epochs` shows (`root`). Every node names its root in its handshakes: a
-node whose document starts from another root of the same epoch refuses the handshake
-(another history under the swarm's ID: a forged root, or a genesis started again).
+node whose document starts from another root of the same epoch, or that was given
+another (`--genesis-root`), refuses the handshake (another history under the swarm's
+ID: a forged root, or a genesis started again).
A node joining with an empty document takes as its root only the one it was given
(`--genesis-root`), or else the one its peers name, and none while they name different
ones; and none before each of its seeds named one, or ten seconds passed since the