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diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-cache.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-cache.txt
index 14041f3d..a353d126 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-cache.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-cache.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-diff-cache - Compares content and mode of blobs between the cache and reposi
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-diff-cache' [-p] [-r] [-z] [-m] [-B] [-M] [-R] [-C] [-O<orderfile>] [-S<string>] [--pickaxe-all] [--cached] <tree-ish> [<path>...]
+'git-diff-cache' [-m] [--cached] [<common diff options>] <tree-ish> [<path>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -21,45 +21,11 @@ entries in the cache are compared.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
+include::diff-options.txt[]
+
 <tree-ish>::
 	The id of a tree object to diff against.
 
--p::
-	Generate patch (see section on generating patches)
-
--r::
-	This flag does not mean anything.  It is there only to match
-	"git-diff-tree".  Unlike "git-diff-tree", "git-diff-cache"
-	always looks at all the subdirectories.
-
--z::
-	\0 line termination on output
-
--B::
-	Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create.
-
--M::
-	Detect renames.
-
--C::
-	Detect copies as well as renames.
-
--S<string>::
-	Look for differences that contains the change in <string>.
-
---pickaxe-all::
-	When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that
-	changeset, not just the files that contains the change
-	in <string>.
-
--O<orderfile>::
-	Output the patch in the order specified in the
-	<orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line.
-
--R::
-	Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from cache or
-	on-disk file to tree contents.
-
 --cached::
 	do not consider the on-disk file at all
 
@@ -84,13 +50,13 @@ Cached Mode
 -----------
 If '--cached' is specified, it allows you to ask:
 
-	show me the differences between HEAD and the current index
+	show me the differences between HEAD and the current cache
 	contents (the ones I'd write with a "git-write-tree")
 
-For example, let's say that you have worked on your index file, and are
-ready to commit. You want to see eactly *what* you are going to commit is
-without having to write a new tree object and compare it that way, and to
-do that, you just do
+For example, let's say that you have worked on your working directory, updated
+some files in the cache and are ready to commit. You want to see eactly
+*what* you are going to commit is without having to write a new tree
+object and compare it that way, and to do that, you just do
 
 	git-diff-cache --cached $(cat .git/HEAD)