Allow cherry-picking root commits

diff --git a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt
index 8790d19b2fee26ae5b7b04d0267ed3565908a514..9e654fc41cc2b4a97806b2cb9430650214522711 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt
@@ -1,15 +1,14 @@
 git-hash-object(1)
 ==================
-v0.1, May 2005
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-hash-object - Computes object ID and optionally creates a blob from a file.
+git-hash-object - Compute object ID and optionally creates a blob from a file
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] <any-file-on-the-filesystem>
+'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] [--stdin | --stdin-paths] [--] <file>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -17,10 +16,24 @@ Computes the object ID value for an object with specified type
 with the contents of the named file (which can be outside of the
 work tree), and optionally writes the resulting object into the
 object database.  Reports its object ID to its standard output.
-This is used by "git-cvsimport-script" to update the cache
+This is used by 'git-cvsimport' to update the index
 without modifying files in the work tree.  When <type> is not
-specified, it defaults to "blob". 
+specified, it defaults to "blob".
 
+OPTIONS
+-------
+
+-t <type>::
+       Specify the type (default: "blob").
+
+-w::
+       Actually write the object into the object database.
+
+--stdin::
+       Read the object from standard input instead of from a file.
+
+--stdin-paths::
+       Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line.
 
 Author
 ------
@@ -32,5 +45,4 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
-
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite