diff --git a/include/get.sh b/include/get.sh
index bc47a075..862bc330 100644
--- a/include/get.sh
+++ b/include/get.sh
@@ -139,25 +139,13 @@ xbget()
 	[ "$1" != "curl" ] && [ "$1" != "copy" ] && [ "$1" != "git" ] && \
 		err "Bad dlop (arg 1)" "xbget" "$@"
 
-	for url in "$2" "$3"
-	do
-		if [ -z "$url" ]; then
+	for url in "$2" "$3"; do
+		[ -z "$url" ] && \
 			err "empty URL given in" "xbget" "$@"
-		elif ! try_fetch "$url" "$@"; then
+		try_fetch "$url" "$@" || \
 			continue
-		fi
-
-		case "$1" in
-		git)
-			[ ! -d "$4" ] && \
-				continue
-			;;
-		*)
-			[ ! -f "$4" ] && \
-				continue
-			;;
-		esac
-		return 0 # successful download/copy
+		[ -e "$4" ] && \
+			return 0; : # successful download/copy
 	done
 
 	err "failed to download file/repository" "xbget" "$@"; :
diff --git a/include/init.sh b/include/init.sh
index 70c6591f..468842e0 100644
--- a/include/init.sh
+++ b/include/init.sh
@@ -406,6 +406,7 @@ xbmk_git_init()
 	x_ git -c user.name="xbmk" -c user.email="xbmk@example.com" \
 	    tag -a "$version" -m "$projectname $version" \
 	    1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null; :
+
 	) || err "Can't initialise workdir" xbmk_git_init "$@"; :
 }
 
diff --git a/include/mrc.sh b/include/mrc.sh
index e75b37e7..bb3687ea 100644
--- a/include/mrc.sh
+++ b/include/mrc.sh
@@ -58,7 +58,6 @@ extract_partition()
 	    parted "${1%.zip}" 2>/dev/null | grep "ROOT-A" )
 
 	START=$(( $( echo $ROOTP | cut -f2 -d\ | tr -d "B" ) ))
-
 	SIZE=$(( $( echo $ROOTP | cut -f4 -d\ | tr -d "B" ) ))
 
 	x_ dd if="${1%.zip}" of="root-a.ext2" bs=1024 \
diff --git a/include/release.sh b/include/release.sh
index d0b35edd..8a429598 100644
--- a/include/release.sh
+++ b/include/release.sh
@@ -60,13 +60,13 @@ release()
 prep_release()
 {
 	(
-		if [ "$1" != "tarball" ]; then
-			x_ cd "$rsrc"
-			[ ! -e "cache" ] && \
-				x_ ln -s "$XBMK_CACHE" "cache"; :
-		fi
+	if [ "$1" != "tarball" ]; then
+		x_ cd "$rsrc"
+		[ ! -e "cache" ] && \
+			x_ ln -s "$XBMK_CACHE" "cache"; :
+	fi
 
-		prep_release_$1
+	prep_release_$1
 
 	) || err "can't prep release $1" "prep_release" "$@"
 }
@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ prep_release_tarball()
 	x_ mv "$rsrc/util/sbase2" "$rsrc/util/sbase"
 
 	(
-		x_ cd "${rsrc%/*}"
-		x_ mktarball "${rsrc##*/}" "${rsrc##*/}.tar.xz"
+	x_ cd "${rsrc%/*}"
+	x_ mktarball "${rsrc##*/}" "${rsrc##*/}.tar.xz"
 
 	) || err "can't create src tarball" "prep_release_tarball" "$@"; :
 }