color-words: take an optional regular expression describing words

diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
index 9f85d60b5fb6d6ae1b4d8c2e65a6131cbe21450b..057a021eb50899ed5fe1ee5a7b6c59e7fc27becf 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 --abbrev[=<n>]::
        Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
-       lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix.
+       lines, show only a partial prefix.
        Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
 
 \--::