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diff --git a/Documentation/git-show.txt b/Documentation/git-show.txt
index 48b612e2ae..7f075e84f5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-show.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show.txt
@@ -16,16 +16,16 @@ Shows one or more objects (blobs, trees, tags and commits).
For commits it shows the log message and textual diff. It also
presents the merge commit in a special format as produced by
-'git-diff-tree --cc'.
+'git diff-tree --cc'.
For tags, it shows the tag message and the referenced objects.
-For trees, it shows the names (equivalent to 'git-ls-tree'
+For trees, it shows the names (equivalent to 'git ls-tree'
with \--name-only).
For plain blobs, it shows the plain contents.
-The command takes options applicable to the 'git-diff-tree' command to
+The command takes options applicable to the 'git diff-tree' command to
control how the changes the commit introduces are shown.
This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ OPTIONS
<object>...::
The names of objects to show.
For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
- "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
+ "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
include::pretty-options.txt[]
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ git show v1.0.0::
git show v1.0.0^\{tree\}::
Shows the tree pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`.
+git show -s --format=%s v1.0.0^\{commit\}::
+ Shows the subject of the commit pointed to by the
+ tag `v1.0.0`.
+
git show next~10:Documentation/README::
Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as
they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch
@@ -68,17 +72,6 @@ Discussion
include::i18n.txt[]
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
-Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>. Significantly enhanced by
-Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>.
-
-
-Documentation
--------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Petr Baudis and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite