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diff --git a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt
index 152479ebba..ee13124681 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ The group must be preceded by one or more empty (or whitespace-only) lines.
The group must either be at the end of the message or be the last
non-whitespace lines before a line that starts with '---' (followed by a
space or the end of the line). Such three minus signs start the patch
-part of the message.
+part of the message. See also `--no-divider` below.
When reading trailers, there can be whitespaces after the
token, the separator and the value. There can also be whitespaces
@@ -123,6 +123,11 @@ OPTIONS
A convenience alias for `--only-trailers --only-input
--unfold`.
+--no-divider::
+ Do not treat `---` as the end of the commit message. Use this
+ when you know your input contains just the commit message itself
+ (and not an email or the output of `git format-patch`).
+
CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
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