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diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
index 70f400b266..75780d7d63 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[verse]
'git show-ref' [-q|--quiet] [--verify] [--head] [-d|--dereference]
[-s|--hash[=<n>]] [--abbrev[=<n>]] [--tags]
- [--heads] [--] <pattern>...
+ [--heads] [--] [<pattern>...]
'git show-ref' --exclude-existing[=<pattern>] < ref-list
DESCRIPTION
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ OPTIONS
--exclude-existing[=<pattern>]::
- Make 'git-show-ref' act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the
+ Make 'git show-ref' act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the
form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:\^\{\})?$" and performs the
following actions on each:
(1) strip "^{}" at the end of line if any;
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ When using the '--verify' flag, the command requires an exact path:
will only match the exact branch called "master".
-If nothing matches, 'git-show-ref' will return an error code of 1,
+If nothing matches, 'git show-ref' will return an error code of 1,
and in the case of verification, it will show an error message.
For scripting, you can ask it to be quiet with the "--quiet" flag, which
@@ -163,9 +163,15 @@ flag, so you can do
to get a listing of all tags together with what they dereference.
+FILES
+-----
+`.git/refs/*`, `.git/packed-refs`
+
SEE ALSO
--------
-linkgit:git-ls-remote[1]
+linkgit:git-ls-remote[1],
+linkgit:git-update-ref[1],
+linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5]
AUTHORS
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