remove noise and inaccuracies from git-svn docs

diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
index 15aee2f9532e66e46c83e4cef908c0a4f87fadd9..86abd1345178d4c5d2362509fc075de80d2fc7e3 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
                [--exclude-per-directory=<file>]
                [--exclude-standard]
                [--error-unmatch] [--with-tree=<tree-ish>]
-               [--full-name] [--abbrev] [--] [<file>]*
+               [--full-name] [--abbrev] [--] [<file>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -79,15 +79,16 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -x <pattern>::
 --exclude=<pattern>::
-       Skips files matching pattern.
-       Note that pattern is a shell wildcard pattern.
+       Skip untracked files matching pattern.
+       Note that pattern is a shell wildcard pattern. See EXCLUDE PATTERNS
+       below for more information.
 
 -X <file>::
 --exclude-from=<file>::
-       exclude patterns are read from <file>; 1 per line.
+       Read exclude patterns from <file>; 1 per line.
 
 --exclude-per-directory=<file>::
-       read additional exclude patterns that apply only to the
+       Read additional exclude patterns that apply only to the
        directory and its subdirectories in <file>.
 
 --exclude-standard::
@@ -192,7 +193,7 @@ These exclude patterns come from these places, in order:
      file containing a list of patterns.  Patterns are ordered
      in the same order they appear in the file.
 
-  3. command line flag --exclude-per-directory=<name> specifies
+  3. The command line flag --exclude-per-directory=<name> specifies
      a name of the file in each directory 'git ls-files'
      examines, normally `.gitignore`.  Files in deeper
      directories take precedence.  Patterns are ordered in the