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diff --git a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
index 844cfda8..11bd9c0a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-read-tree - Reads tree information into the index
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-read-tree' (<tree-ish> | [[-m [--aggressive]| --reset] [-u | -i]] <tree-ish1> [<tree-ish2> [<tree-ish3>]])
+'git-read-tree' (<tree-ish> | [[-m [--aggressive] | --reset | --prefix=<prefix>] [-u | -i]] <tree-ish1> [<tree-ish2> [<tree-ish3>]])
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -63,6 +63,15 @@ OPTIONS
 * when both sides adds a path identically.  The resolution
   is to add that path.
 
+--prefix=<prefix>/::
+	Keep the current index contents, and read the contents
+	of named tree-ish under directory at `<prefix>`.  The
+	original index file cannot have anything at the path
+	`<prefix>` itself, and have nothing in `<prefix>/`
+	directory.  Note that the `<prefix>/` value must end
+	with a slash.
+
+
 <tree-ish#>::
 	The id of the tree object(s) to be read/merged.
 
@@ -205,7 +214,7 @@ The `git-write-tree` command refuses to write a nonsensical tree, and it
 will complain about unmerged entries if it sees a single entry that is not
 stage 0.
 
-Ok, this all sounds like a collection of totally nonsensical rules,
+OK, this all sounds like a collection of totally nonsensical rules,
 but it's actually exactly what you want in order to do a fast
 merge. The different stages represent the "result tree" (stage 0, aka
 "merged"), the original tree (stage 1, aka "orig"), and the two trees
@@ -226,7 +235,7 @@ populated.  Here is an outline of how the algorithm works:
 
 - the index file saves and restores with all this information, so you
   can merge things incrementally, but as long as it has entries in
-  stages 1/2/3 (ie "unmerged entries") you can't write the result. So
+  stages 1/2/3 (i.e., "unmerged entries") you can't write the result. So
   now the merge algorithm ends up being really simple:
 
   * you walk the index in order, and ignore all entries of stage 0,
@@ -257,7 +266,7 @@ file that does not match stage 2.
 This is done to prevent you from losing your work-in-progress
 changes, and mixing your random changes in an unrelated merge
 commit.  To illustrate, suppose you start from what has been
-commited last to your repository:
+committed last to your repository:
 
 ----------------
 $ JC=`git-rev-parse --verify "HEAD^0"`