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diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index bc132c8..3d1c1e7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ git-archive - Create an archive of files from a named tree
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git archive' --format=<fmt> [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
- [--output=<file>] [--worktree-attributes]
+'git archive' [--format=<fmt>] [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
+ [-o | --output=<file>] [--worktree-attributes]
[--remote=<repo> [--exec=<git-upload-archive>]] <tree-ish>
[path...]
@@ -34,8 +34,11 @@ OPTIONS
-------
--format=<fmt>::
- Format of the resulting archive: 'tar' or 'zip'. The default
- is 'tar'.
+ Format of the resulting archive: 'tar' or 'zip'. If this option
+ is not given, and the output file is specified, the format is
+ inferred from the filename if possible (e.g. writing to "foo.zip"
+ makes the output to be in the zip format). Otherwise the output
+ format is `tar`.
-l::
--list::
@@ -48,6 +51,7 @@ OPTIONS
--prefix=<prefix>/::
Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive.
+-o <file>::
--output=<file>::
Write the archive to <file> instead of stdout.
@@ -129,6 +133,12 @@ git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs
Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
into 'git-1.4.0-docs.zip', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
+git archive -o latest.zip HEAD::
+
+ Create a Zip archive that contains the contents of the latest
+ commit on the current branch. Note that the output format is
+ inferred by the extension of the output file.
+
SEE ALSO
--------