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diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index d1e93dbb..4cb2e83f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,10 @@ git-pack-objects - Create a packed archive of objects.
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-pack-objects' [--local] [--incremental] [--window=N] [--depth=N] {--stdout | base-name} < object-list
+[verse]
+'git-pack-objects' [-q] [--no-reuse-delta] [--non-empty]
+	[--local] [--incremental] [--window=N] [--depth=N]
+	{--stdout | base-name} < object-list
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -32,6 +35,10 @@ Placing both in the pack/ subdirectory of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY (or
 any of the directories on $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES)
 enables git to read from such an archive.
 
+In a packed archive, an object is either stored as a compressed
+whole, or as a difference from some other object.  The latter is
+often called a delta.
+
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
@@ -46,7 +53,7 @@ base-name::
 	output of the command.
 
 --stdout::
-	Write the pack contents (what would have been writtin to
+	Write the pack contents (what would have been written to
 	.pack file) out to the standard output.
 
 --window and --depth::
@@ -70,6 +77,22 @@ base-name::
 	that are packed and not in the local object store
 	(i.e. borrowed from an alternate).
 
+--non-empty::
+        Only create a packed archive if it would contain at
+        least one object.
+
+-q::
+	This flag makes the command not to report its progress
+	on the standard error stream.
+
+--no-reuse-delta::
+	When creating a packed archive in a repository that
+	has existing packs, the command reuses existing deltas.
+	This sometimes results in a slightly suboptimal pack.
+	This flag tells the command not to reuse existing deltas
+	but compute them from scratch.
+
+
 Author
 ------
 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>