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diff --git a/Documentation/git-svnimport.txt b/Documentation/git-svnimport.txt
index a27a8359..b1b87c2f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svnimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svnimport.txt
@@ -9,11 +9,13 @@ git-svnimport - Import a SVN repository into git
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
+[verse]
 'git-svnimport' [ -o <branch-for-HEAD> ] [ -h ] [ -v ] [ -d | -D ]
-			[ -C <GIT_repository> ] [ -i ] [ -u ] [-l limit_nr_changes]
-			[ -b branch_subdir ] [ -t trunk_subdir ] [ -T tag_subdir ]
-			[ -s start_chg ] [ -m ] [ -M regex ]
-			<SVN_repository_URL> [ <path> ]
+		[ -C <GIT_repository> ] [ -i ] [ -u ] [-l limit_rev]
+		[ -b branch_subdir ] [ -T trunk_subdir ] [ -t tag_subdir ]
+		[ -s start_chg ] [ -m ] [ -r ] [ -M regex ]
+		[ -I <ignorefile_name> ] [ -A <author_file> ]
+		<SVN_repository_URL> [ <path> ]
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -21,7 +23,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
 Imports a SVN repository into git. It will either create a new
 repository, or incrementally import into an existing one.
 
-SVN access is done by the SVN:: Perl module.
+SVN access is done by the SVN::Perl module.
 
 git-svnimport assumes that SVN repositories are organized into one
 "trunk" directory where the main development happens, "branch/FOO"
@@ -29,7 +31,7 @@ directories for branches, and "/tags/FOO" directories for tags.
 Other subdirectories are ignored.
 
 git-svnimport creates a file ".git/svn2git", which is required for
-incremental SVN imports. 
+incremental SVN imports.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
@@ -40,45 +42,70 @@ OPTIONS
 -s <start_rev>::
         Start importing at this SVN change number. The  default is 1.
 +
-When importing incementally, you might need to edit the .git/svn2git file.
+When importing incrementally, you might need to edit the .git/svn2git file.
 
 -i::
 	Import-only: don't perform a checkout after importing.  This option
-	ensures the working directory and cache remain untouched and will
+	ensures the working directory and index remain untouched and will
 	not create them if they do not exist.
 
--t <trunk_subdir>::
+-T <trunk_subdir>::
 	Name the SVN trunk. Default "trunk".
-	
--T <tag_subdir>::
+
+-t <tag_subdir>::
 	Name the SVN subdirectory for tags. Default "tags".
-	
+
 -b <branch_subdir>::
 	Name the SVN subdirectory for branches. Default "branches".
-	
+
 -o <branch-for-HEAD>::
 	The 'trunk' branch from SVN is imported to the 'origin' branch within
 	the git repository. Use this option if you want to import into a
 	different branch.
 
--m::    
+-r::
+	Prepend 'rX: ' to commit messages, where X is the imported
+	subversion revision.
+
+-I <ignorefile_name>::
+	Import the svn:ignore directory property to files with this
+	name in each directory. (The Subversion and GIT ignore
+	syntaxes are similar enough that using the Subversion patterns
+	directly with "-I .gitignore" will almost always just work.)
+
+-A <author_file>::
+	Read a file with lines on the form
++
+------
+	username = User's Full Name <email@addr.es>
+
+------
++
+and use "User's Full Name <email@addr.es>" as the GIT
+author and committer for Subversion commits made by
+"username". If encountering a commit made by a user not in the
+list, abort.
++
+For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/svn-authors
+each time the -A option is provided, and read from that same
+file each time git-svnimport is run with an existing GIT
+repository without -A.
+
+-m::
 	Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message. This option
-	will enable default regexes that try to capture the name source 
-	branch name from the commit message. 
+	will enable default regexes that try to capture the name source
+	branch name from the commit message.
 
 -M <regex>::
 	Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message with a custom
-	regex. It can be used with -m to also see the default regexes. 
-	You must escape forward slashes. 
+	regex. It can be used with -m to also see the default regexes.
+	You must escape forward slashes.
 
--l <max_num_changes>::
-	Limit the number of SVN changesets we pull before quitting.
-	This option is necessary because the SVN library has serious memory
-	leaks; the recommended value for nontrivial imports is 100.
+-l <max_rev>::
+	Specify a maximum revision number to pull.
 
-	git-svnimport will still exit with a zero exit code. You can check
-	the size of the file ".git/svn2git" to determine whether to call
-	the importer again.
+	Formerly, this option controlled how many revisions to pull,
+	due to SVN memory leaks. (These have been worked around.)
 
 -v::
 	Verbosity: let 'svnimport' report what it is doing.
@@ -103,11 +130,7 @@ with a 40x error pretty quickly.
 If you're using the "-d" or "-D" option, this is the URL of the SVN
 repository itself; it usually ends in "/svn".
 
-<SVN_repository_URL>::
-	The URL of the SVN module you want to import. For local
-	repositories, use "file:///absolute/path".
-
-<path>
+<path>::
 	The path to the module you want to check out.
 
 -h::