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diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
index 2a8f371e..4c357daf 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -3,12 +3,15 @@ git-daemon(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-daemon - A really simple server for git repositories.
+git-daemon - A really simple server for git repositories
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
+[verse]
 'git-daemon' [--verbose] [--syslog] [--inetd | --port=n] [--export-all]
-             [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths] [directory...]
+             [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths]
+             [--base-path=path] [--user-path | --user-path=path]
+	     [directory...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -17,7 +20,7 @@ aka 9418. It waits for a connection, and will just execute "git-upload-pack"
 when it gets one.
 
 It's careful in that there's a magic request-line that gives the command and
-what directory to upload, and it verifies that the directory is ok.
+what directory to upload, and it verifies that the directory is OK.
 
 It verifies that the directory has the magic file "git-daemon-export-ok", and
 it will refuse to export any git directory that hasn't explicitly been marked
@@ -25,7 +28,7 @@ for export this way (unless the '--export-all' parameter is specified). If you
 pass some directory paths as 'git-daemon' arguments, you can further restrict
 the offers to a whitelist comprising of those.
 
-This is ideally suited for read-only updates, ie pulling from git repositories.
+This is ideally suited for read-only updates, i.e., pulling from git repositories.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
@@ -35,6 +38,13 @@ OPTIONS
 	git-daemon will refuse to start when this option is enabled and no
 	whitelist is specified.
 
+--base-path::
+	Remap all the path requests as relative to the given path.
+	This is sort of "GIT root" - if you run git-daemon with
+	'--base-path=/srv/git' on example.com, then if you later try to pull
+	'git://example.com/hello.git', `git-daemon` will interpret the path
+	as '/srv/git/hello.git'.
+
 --export-all::
 	Allow pulling from all directories that look like GIT repositories
 	(have the 'objects' and 'refs' subdirectories), even if they
@@ -60,6 +70,15 @@ OPTIONS
 	Log to syslog instead of stderr. Note that this option does not imply
 	--verbose, thus by default only error conditions will be logged.
 
+--user-path, --user-path=path::
+	Allow ~user notation to be used in requests.  When
+	specified with no parameter, requests to
+	git://host/~alice/foo is taken as a request to access
+	'foo' repository in the home directory of user `alice`.
+	If `--user-path=path` is specified, the same request is
+	taken as a request to access `path/foo` repository in
+	the home directory of user `alice`.
+
 --verbose::
 	Log details about the incoming connections and requested files.