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diff --git a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
index 74a6fddd9..434607bfb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-tar-tree(1)
NAME
----
-git-tar-tree - Creates a tar archive of the files in the named tree
+git-tar-tree - Create a tar archive of the files in the named tree object
SYNOPSIS
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
THIS COMMAND IS DEPRECATED. Use `git-archive` with `--format=tar`
-option instead.
+option instead (and move the argument to `--prefix=base/`).
Creates a tar archive containing the tree structure for the named tree.
When is specified it is added as a leading path to the files in the
@@ -42,16 +42,13 @@ OPTIONS
CONFIGURATION
-------------
-By default, file and directories modes are set to 0666 or 0777. It is
-possible to change this by setting the "umask" variable in the
-repository configuration as follows :
-[tar]
- umask = 002 ;# group friendly
-
-The special umask value "user" indicates that the user's current umask
-will be used instead. The default value remains 0, which means world
-readable/writable files and directories.
+tar.umask::
+ This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
+ tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the
+ world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the
+ archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for
+ details.
EXAMPLES
--------
@@ -90,4 +87,3 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list