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diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
index ba2fdaec08..bd3eaa69bf 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
@@ -8,12 +8,13 @@ git-send-pack - Push objects over git protocol to another repository
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-send-pack' [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--verbose] [--thin] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...]
+[verse]
+'git send-pack' [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--verbose] [--thin] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Usually you would want to use linkgit:git-push[1] which is a
-higher level wrapper of this command instead.
+Usually you would want to use 'git push', which is a
+higher-level wrapper of this command, instead. See linkgit:git-push[1].
Invokes 'git-receive-pack' on a possibly remote repository, and
updates it from the current repository, sending named refs.
@@ -48,8 +49,8 @@ OPTIONS
Run verbosely.
--thin::
- Spend extra cycles to minimize the number of objects to be sent.
- Use it on slower connection.
+ Send a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based
+ on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic.
<host>::
A remote host to house the repository. When this
@@ -86,8 +87,8 @@ and the destination side (after the colon). The ref to be
pushed is determined by finding a match that matches the source
side, and where it is pushed is determined by using the
destination side. The rules used to match a ref are the same
-rules used by linkgit:git-rev-parse[1] to resolve a symbolic ref
-name.
+rules used by 'git rev-parse' to resolve a symbolic ref
+name. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
- It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of the
local refs.
@@ -105,24 +106,15 @@ name.
Without '--force', the <src> ref is stored at the remote only if
<dst> does not exist, or <dst> is a proper subset (i.e. an
-ancestor) of <src>. This check, known as "fast forward check",
+ancestor) of <src>. This check, known as "fast-forward check",
is performed in order to avoid accidentally overwriting the
remote ref and lose other peoples' commits from there.
-With '--force', the fast forward check is disabled for all refs.
+With '--force', the fast-forward check is disabled for all refs.
Optionally, a <ref> parameter can be prefixed with a plus '+' sign
to disable the fast-forward check only on that ref.
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
-
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite