diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 8734161..8679049 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -45,47 +45,48 @@ for the topic), send a pull request.
 Authors
 ==============
 
-The following people have contributed at least one patch to the
-pygit2 project (sorted alphabetically):
+This is the list of authors of pygit2, sorted by number of commits (as shown by
+``git shortlog -sn``):
 
+- J David Ibáñez
+- Nico von Geyso
+- W Trevor King
+- Dave Borowitz
+- Carlos Martín Nieto
+- Christian Boos
+- Julien Miotte
+- Richo Healey
+- Martin Lenders
+- Xavier Delannoy
+- Yonggang Luo
+- Valentin Haenel
+- John Szakmeister
+- David Versmisse
+- Petr Hosek
+- Sebastian Thiel
+- Han-Wen Nienhuys
+- Petr Viktorin
 - Alex Chamberlain
 - Amit Bakshi
-- András Veres-Szentkirályi
 - Ben Davis
+- Jared Flatow
+- Sarath Lakshman
+- Vicent Marti
+- Zoran Zaric
+- András Veres-Szentkirályi
 - Benjamin Kircher
 - Benjamin Pollack
 - Bryan O'Sullivan
-- Carlos Martín Nieto
-- Christian Boos
-- David Borowitz (*Original author*)
 - David Sanders
-- David Versmisse
 - Eric Davis
 - Eric Schrijver
 - Erik van Zijst
 - Ferengee
-- Han-Wen Nienhuys
 - Hugh Cole-Baker
-- J David Ibáñez (*Current maintainer*)
-- Jared Flatow
-- John Szakmeister
 - Josh Bleecher Snyder
-- Julien Miotte
-- Martin Lenders
-- Nico von Geyso
-- Petr Hosek
-- Petr Viktorin
-- Richo Healey
+- Jun Omae
 - Ridge Kennedy
 - Rui Abreu Ferreira
-- Sarath Lakshman
-- Sebastian Thiel
-- Valentin Haenel
-- Vicent Marti
-- W Trevor King
-- Xavier Delannoy
-- Yonggang Luo
-- Zoran Zaric
 - pistacchio
 
 
diff --git a/docs/diff.rst b/docs/diff.rst
index 513d08e..4d50ed8 100644
--- a/docs/diff.rst
+++ b/docs/diff.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ A diff shows the changes between trees, an index or the working dir::
     # Diff a tree with the current working dir
     >>> diff = head.tree.diff()
 
+    # Get all patches for a diff
+    >>> t0 = repo.revparse_single('HEAD^').tree
+    >>> t1 = repo.revparse_single('HEAD~3').tree
+    >>> diff = t0.diff(t1)
+    >>> patches = [p for p in diff]
+
 
 The Diff type
 ====================
diff --git a/src/diff.c b/src/diff.c
index d7c2b69..aa69ee2 100644
--- a/src/diff.c
+++ b/src/diff.c
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ PyTypeObject DiffIterType = {
 };
 
 
-PyDoc_STRVAR(Diff_patch__doc__, "Patch.");
+PyDoc_STRVAR(Diff_patch__doc__, "Patch diff string.");
 
 PyObject *
 Diff_patch__get__(Diff *self)
diff --git a/src/repository.c b/src/repository.c
index 45fda4e..74c7a50 100644
--- a/src/repository.c
+++ b/src/repository.c
@@ -854,30 +854,15 @@ PyObject *
 Repository_git_reference_symbolic_create(Repository *self,  PyObject *args,
                                          PyObject *kw)
 {
-    PyObject *py_obj;
     git_reference *c_reference;
     char *c_name, *c_target;
     int err, force;
 
-    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "sOi", &c_name, &py_obj, &force))
-        return NULL;
-
-    #if PY_MAJOR_VERSION == 2
-    c_target = PyBytes_AsString(py_obj);
-    #else
-    // increases ref counter, so we have to release it afterwards
-    PyObject* py_str = PyUnicode_AsASCIIString(py_obj);
-    c_target = PyBytes_AsString(py_str);
-    #endif
-    if (c_target == NULL)
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "ssi", &c_name, &c_target, &force))
         return NULL;
 
     err = git_reference_symbolic_create(&c_reference, self->repo, c_name,
                                         c_target, force);
-    #if PY_MAJOR_VERSION > 2
-      Py_CLEAR(py_str);
-    #endif
-
     if (err < 0)
         return Error_set(err);
 
@@ -1025,6 +1010,7 @@ Repository_create_remote(Repository *self, PyObject *args)
         return Error_set(err);
 
     py_remote = PyObject_New(Remote, &RemoteType);
+    Py_INCREF(self);
     py_remote->repo = self;
     py_remote->remote = remote;