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diff --git a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt
index 4b0a502e8ef92ac989cce308f87e1f269a8a69be..df9e2c58bdbc5f31edaf25577df744868e16f3de 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ git-hash-object - Compute object ID and optionally creates a blob from a file
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] [--path=<file>|--no-filters] [--stdin] [--] <file>...
-'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] --stdin-paths [--no-filters] < <list-of-paths>
+'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] [--path=<file>|--no-filters] [--stdin [--literally]] [--] <file>...
+'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] --stdin-paths [--no-filters]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -18,9 +18,7 @@ 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' to update the index
-without modifying files in the work tree.  When <type> is not
-specified, it defaults to "blob".
+When <type> is not specified, it defaults to "blob".
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
@@ -35,12 +33,13 @@ OPTIONS
        Read the object from standard input instead of from a file.
 
 --stdin-paths::
-       Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line.
+       Read file names from the standard input, one per line, instead
+       of from the command-line.
 
 --path::
        Hash object as it were located at the given path. The location of
        file does not directly influence on the hash value, but path is
-       used to determine what git filters should be applied to the object
+       used to determine what Git filters should be applied to the object
        before it can be placed to the object database, and, as result of
        applying filters, the actual blob put into the object database may
        differ from the given file. This option is mainly useful for hashing
@@ -51,7 +50,13 @@ OPTIONS
        Hash the contents as is, ignoring any input filter that would
        have been chosen by the attributes mechanism, including the end-of-line
        conversion. If the file is read from standard input then this
-       is always implied, unless the --path option is given.
+       is always implied, unless the `--path` option is given.
+
+--literally::
+       Allow `--stdin` to hash any garbage into a loose object which might not
+       otherwise pass standard object parsing or git-fsck checks. Useful for
+       stress-testing Git itself or reproducing characteristics of corrupt or
+       bogus objects encountered in the wild.
 
 GIT
 ---