diff --git a/docs/c2a-land-map.md b/docs/c2a-land-map.md
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--- a/docs/c2a-land-map.md
+++ b/docs/c2a-land-map.md
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ order:
    Geometry, WebSockets, ConsumerBuild, InteropPeer, cultcache-ts/-rs/-py, cultnet-ts and cultmesh-ts.
    Run `old-reader-refusal.sh gate` for csharp, typescript, python and rust. If main gained code by then,
    a Soul pass covers the merge.
-6. **Land.** Run `git merge --no-ff hands/variants-c2a` onto main, with an empty diff against the
+6. **Land.** The land is `git merge --no-ff`, never a squash, so the SHAs that every report and verdict cites stay reachable from main (skip the branch's non-building commits with `git bisect --first-parent`). Steps 1 and 2 closed at 723b7996 (claimant-one-owner, land-c2a-gate); step 5 closed at the merge commit 3157d4b3. Run `git merge --no-ff hands/variants-c2a` onto main, with an empty diff against the
    verified head. There is no tag: tags, the Unity plugin rebuild and `declared-range-gate-own-version`
    belong to the 3.0.0 release cut. Open follow-ups `c2a-load-slower` (load 2 to 2.3 times slower than
    main on a synthetic Aetheria catalog) and `drift-write-ownership-leaves` do not say "before land".