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diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 636e09048e..b99029520d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-svn - Bidirectional operation between a Subversion repository and Git
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git svn' <command> [options] [arguments]
+'git svn' <command> [<options>] [<arguments>]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ Any other arguments are passed directly to 'git log'
'commit-diff'::
Commits the diff of two tree-ish arguments from the
- command-line. This command does not rely on being inside an `git svn
+ command-line. This command does not rely on being inside a `git svn
init`-ed repository. This command takes three arguments, (a) the
original tree to diff against, (b) the new tree result, (c) the
URL of the target Subversion repository. The final argument
@@ -635,7 +635,8 @@ config key: svn.findcopiesharder
-A<filename>::
--authors-file=<filename>::
- Syntax is compatible with the file used by 'git cvsimport':
+ Syntax is compatible with the file used by 'git cvsimport' but
+ an empty email address can be supplied with '<>':
+
------------------------------------------------------------------------
loginname = Joe User <user@example.com>
@@ -654,8 +655,14 @@ config key: svn.authorsfile
If this option is specified, for each SVN committer name that
does not exist in the authors file, the given file is executed
with the committer name as the first argument. The program is
- expected to return a single line of the form "Name <email>",
- which will be treated as if included in the authors file.
+ expected to return a single line of the form "Name <email>" or
+ "Name <>", which will be treated as if included in the authors
+ file.
++
+Due to historical reasons a relative 'filename' is first searched
+relative to the current directory for 'init' and 'clone' and relative
+to the root of the working tree for 'fetch'. If 'filename' is
+not found, it is searched like any other command in '$PATH'.
+
[verse]
config key: svn.authorsProg
@@ -700,7 +707,7 @@ creating the branch or tag.
config key: svn.useLogAuthor
--add-author-from::
- When committing to svn from Git (as part of 'commit-diff', 'set-tree' or 'dcommit'
+ When committing to svn from Git (as part of 'set-tree' or 'dcommit'
operations), if the existing log message doesn't already have a
`From:` or `Signed-off-by:` line, append a `From:` line based on the
Git commit's author string. If you use this, then `--use-log-author`