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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt5
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 5c936693d3..2921da320d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -155,8 +155,9 @@ blobs contained in a commit.
name the same commit object if there are no other object in
your repository whose object name starts with dae86e.
-* An output from 'git-describe'; i.e. a closest tag, followed by a
- dash, a `g`, and an abbreviated object name.
+* An output from 'git-describe'; i.e. a closest tag, optionally
+ followed by a dash and a number of commits, followed by a dash, a
+ `g`, and an abbreviated object name.
* A symbolic ref name. E.g. 'master' typically means the commit
object referenced by $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/master. If you