Documentation: improve "add", "pull" and "format-patch" examples

diff --git a/Documentation/git-write-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-write-tree.txt
index 77e12cb949201445ab33992f9ff155f647ce167c..461c813f5ad19ac718b09cfae247eaac74d4d845 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-write-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-write-tree.txt
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ git-write-tree(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-write-tree - Creates a tree object from the current index
+git-write-tree - Create a tree object from the current index
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-write-tree' [--missing-ok]
+'git-write-tree' [--missing-ok] [--prefix=<prefix>/]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ OPTIONS
        directory exist in the object database.  This option disables this
        check.
 
+--prefix=<prefix>/::
+       Writes a tree object that represents a subdirectory
+       `<prefix>`.  This can be used to write the tree object
+       for a subproject that is in the named subdirectory.
+
+
 Author
 ------
 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
@@ -40,5 +46,4 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-
+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite