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diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
index a81cb6c28..79fb98414 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-x | -X] [--] <path>...
+'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [--] <path>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -45,8 +45,16 @@ OPTIONS
 	Be quiet, only report errors, but not the files that are
 	successfully removed.
 
+-e <pattern>::
+--exclude=<pattern>::
+	In addition to those found in .gitignore (per directory) and
+	$GIT_DIR/info/exclude, also consider these patterns to be in the
+	set of the ignore rules in effect.
+
 -x::
-	Don't use the ignore rules.  This allows removing all untracked
+	Don't use the standard ignore rules read from .gitignore (per
+	directory) and $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, but do still use the ignore
+	rules given with `-e` options.  This allows removing all untracked
 	files, including build products.  This can be used (possibly in
 	conjunction with 'git reset') to create a pristine
 	working directory to test a clean build.
@@ -55,12 +63,6 @@ OPTIONS
 	Remove only files ignored by git.  This may be useful to rebuild
 	everything from scratch, but keep manually created files.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
-
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite