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diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
index 16e87fd6dd..a7515714da 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
@@ -20,16 +20,16 @@ in the current working directory. Note that:
- the behaviour is slightly different from that of "/bin/ls" in that the
'<path>' denotes just a list of patterns to match, e.g. so specifying
- directory name (without '-r') will behave differently, and order of the
+ directory name (without `-r`) will behave differently, and order of the
arguments does not matter.
- the behaviour is similar to that of "/bin/ls" in that the '<path>' is
taken as relative to the current working directory. E.g. when you are
in a directory 'sub' that has a directory 'dir', you can run 'git
ls-tree -r HEAD dir' to list the contents of the tree (that is
- 'sub/dir' in 'HEAD'). You don't want to give a tree that is not at the
+ `sub/dir` in `HEAD`). You don't want to give a tree that is not at the
root level (e.g. `git ls-tree -r HEAD:sub dir`) in this case, as that
- would result in asking for 'sub/sub/dir' in the 'HEAD' commit.
+ would result in asking for `sub/sub/dir` in the `HEAD` commit.
However, the current working directory can be ignored by passing
--full-tree option.
@@ -46,14 +46,15 @@ OPTIONS
-t::
Show tree entries even when going to recurse them. Has no effect
- if '-r' was not passed. '-d' implies '-t'.
+ if `-r` was not passed. `-d` implies `-t`.
-l::
--long::
Show object size of blob (file) entries.
-z::
- \0 line termination on output.
+ \0 line termination on output and do not quote filenames.
+ See OUTPUT FORMAT below for more information.
--name-only::
--name-status::
@@ -82,8 +83,6 @@ Output Format
-------------
<mode> SP <type> SP <object> TAB <file>
-Unless the `-z` option is used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
-in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`, respectively.
This output format is compatible with what `--index-info --stdin` of
'git update-index' expects.
@@ -95,6 +94,11 @@ Object size identified by <object> is given in bytes, and right-justified
with minimum width of 7 characters. Object size is given only for blobs
(file) entries; for other entries `-` character is used in place of size.
+Without the `-z` option, pathnames with "unusual" characters are
+quoted as explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath`
+(see linkgit:git-config[1]). Using `-z` the filename is output
+verbatim and the line is terminated by a NUL byte.
+
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite