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diff --git a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt
index 68707083be..ad1d1468c9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt
@@ -8,12 +8,14 @@ git-name-rev - Find symbolic names for given revs
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-name-rev' [--tags] ( --all | --stdin | <commitish>... )
+[verse]
+'git name-rev' [--tags] [--refs=<pattern>]
+ ( --all | --stdin | <committish>... )
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Finds symbolic names suitable for human digestion for revisions given in any
-format parsable by git-rev-parse.
+format parsable by 'git rev-parse'.
OPTIONS
@@ -22,25 +24,42 @@ OPTIONS
--tags::
Do not use branch names, but only tags to name the commits
+--refs=<pattern>::
+ Only use refs whose names match a given shell pattern.
+
--all::
List all commits reachable from all refs
--stdin::
- Read from stdin, append "(<rev_name>)" to all sha1's of name'able
+ Read from stdin, append "(<rev_name>)" to all sha1's of nameable
commits, and pass to stdout
+--name-only::
+ Instead of printing both the SHA-1 and the name, print only
+ the name. If given with --tags the usual tag prefix of
+ "tags/" is also omitted from the name, matching the output
+ of `git-describe` more closely.
+
+--no-undefined::
+ Die with error code != 0 when a reference is undefined,
+ instead of printing `undefined`.
+
+--always::
+ Show uniquely abbreviated commit object as fallback.
+
EXAMPLE
-------
Given a commit, find out where it is relative to the local refs. Say somebody
-wrote you about that phantastic commit 33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a.
+wrote you about that fantastic commit 33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a.
Of course, you look into the commit, but that only tells you what happened, but
not the context.
-Enter git-name-rev:
+Enter 'git name-rev':
------------
% git name-rev 33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a
+33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a tags/v0.99~940
------------
Now you are wiser, because you know that it happened 940 revisions before v0.99.
@@ -51,16 +70,6 @@ Another nice thing you can do is:
% git log | git name-rev --stdin
------------
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Johannes Schindelin.
-
GIT
---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite