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diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
index b699a3458e..573616a04a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-revert - Revert some existing commits
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git revert' [--edit | --no-edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] <commit>...
+'git revert' [--[no-]edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] [-S[<keyid>]] <commit>...
'git revert' --continue
'git revert' --quit
'git revert' --abort
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you
should see linkgit:git-reset[1], particularly the '--hard' option. If
you want to extract specific files as they were in another commit, you
should see linkgit:git-checkout[1], specifically the `git checkout
-<commit> \-- <filename>` syntax. Take care with these alternatives as
+<commit> -- <filename>` syntax. Take care with these alternatives as
both will discard uncommitted changes in your working directory.
OPTIONS
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ brought in by the merge. As a result, later merges will only bring in tree
changes introduced by commits that are not ancestors of the previously
reverted merge. This may or may not be what you want.
+
-See the link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for
+See the link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for
more details.
--no-edit::
@@ -80,9 +80,16 @@ more details.
This is useful when reverting more than one commits'
effect to your index in a row.
+-S[<keyid>]::
+--gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
+ GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and
+ defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be
+ stuck to the option without a space.
+
-s::
--signoff::
Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
+ See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information.
--strategy=<strategy>::
Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once.
@@ -105,7 +112,7 @@ EXAMPLES
Revert the changes specified by the fourth last commit in HEAD
and create a new commit with the reverted changes.
-`git revert -n master{tilde}5..master{tilde}2`::
+`git revert -n master~5..master~2`::
Revert the changes done by commits from the fifth last commit
in master (included) to the third last commit in master