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diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index 1c3dfb40c..d9aa2f298 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -45,12 +45,26 @@ OPTIONS
 	candidates to describe the input committish consider
 	up to <n> candidates.  Increasing <n> above 10 will take
 	slightly longer but may produce a more accurate result.
+	An <n> of 0 will cause only exact matches to be output.
+
+--exact-match::
+	Only output exact matches (a tag directly references the
+	supplied commit).  This is a synonym for --candidates=0.
 
 --debug::
 	Verbosely display information about the searching strategy
 	being employed to standard error.  The tag name will still
 	be printed to standard out.
 
+--long::
+	Always output the long format (the tag, the number of commits
+	and the abbreviated commit name) even when it matches a tag.
+	This is useful when you want to see parts of the commit object name
+	in "describe" output, even when the commit in question happens to be
+	a tagged version.  Instead of just emitting the tag name, it will
+	describe such a commit as v1.2-0-deadbeef (0th commit since tag v1.2
+	that points at object deadbeef....).
+
 --match <pattern>::
 	Only consider tags matching the given pattern (can be used to avoid
 	leaking private tags made from the repository).