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@@ -432,7 +432,10 @@ several placeholders when adding this file to an archive. The
expansion depends on the availability of a commit ID, i.e. if
gitlink:git-archive[1] has been given a tree instead of a commit or a
tag then no replacement will be done. The placeholders are the same
-as those for the option `--pretty=format:` of gitlink:git-log[1].
+as those for the option `--pretty=format:` of gitlink:git-log[1],
+except that they need to be wrapped like this: `$Format:PLACEHOLDERS$`
+in the file. E.g. the string `$Format:%H$` will be replaced by the
+commit hash.
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