diff --git a/repo2html b/repo2html
index 8534052..8ab5ad9 100755
--- a/repo2html
+++ b/repo2html
@@ -111,10 +111,11 @@ export cref_errlog="$cref_errlog_first"
 >"$cref_errlog"
 
 # pass commit list to the HTML and RSS processors (cache list to disk for
-# reference and further processing)
+# reference and further processing); note that we clear the cref_errlog for the
+# RSS feed so that we do not get duplicates
 listcache=.list
 "$repotype"/list | tee \
-  >( ./rss "$repotype" "$url_root" "$rss_count" \
+  >( cref_errlog= ./rss "$repotype" "$url_root" "$rss_count" \
      > "$path_out/rss.xml" \
      2> >( _rssout )
  ) \
@@ -122,7 +123,7 @@ listcache=.list
   | ./processor "$repotype" "$path_out" 2> >( _htmlout )
 
 # re-process cref errors (but only once; any errors at this point will be
-# considered to be problem refs)
+# considered to be problem refs) TODO: RSS
 export cref_errlog=.cref-bad
 >"$cref_errlog"
 grep -f<( sed 's/^/\^/' "$cref_errlog_first" ) "$listcache" \