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diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
index a113c359..ba0438e9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
@@ -1,25 +1,27 @@
 git-ls-tree(1)
 ==============
-v0.1, May 2005
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-ls-tree - Displays a tree object in human readable form
+git-ls-tree - Lists the contents of a tree object.
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-ls-tree' [-r] [-z] <tree-ish> [paths...]
+'git-ls-tree' [-d] [-r] [-z] <tree-ish> [paths...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-Converts the tree object to a human readable (and script processable)
-form.
+Lists the contents of a tree object, like what "/bin/ls -a" does
+in the current working directory.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
 <tree-ish>::
-	Id of a tree.
+	Id of a tree-ish.
+
+-d::
+	show only the named tree entry itself, not its children
 
 -r::
 	recurse into sub-trees
@@ -28,18 +30,23 @@ OPTIONS
 	\0 line termination on output
 
 paths::
-	Optionally, restrict the output of git-ls-tree to specific
-	paths. Directories will only list their tree blob ids.
-	Implies -r.
+	When paths are given, show them.  Otherwise implicitly
+	uses the root level of the tree as the sole path argument.
+
 
 Output Format
 -------------
-        <mode>\t	<type>\t	<object>\t	<file>
+        <mode> SP <type> SP <object> TAB <file>
+
+When `-z` option is not used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
+in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`,
+respectively.
 
 
 Author
 ------
 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
+Completely rewritten from scratch by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
 
 Documentation
 --------------
@@ -47,5 +54,5 @@ 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 gitlink:git[7] suite