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@@ -37,12 +37,6 @@ arguments.  Here are the rules:
    file called HEAD in your work tree, `git diff HEAD` is ambiguous, and
    you have to say either `git diff HEAD --` or `git diff -- HEAD` to
    disambiguate.
-
- * Because `--` disambiguates revisions and paths in some commands, it
-   cannot be used for those commands to separate options and revisions.
-   You can use `--end-of-options` for this (it also works for commands
-   that do not distinguish between revisions in paths, in which case it
-   is simply an alias for `--`).
 +
 When writing a script that is expected to handle random user-input, it is
 a good practice to make it explicit which arguments are which by placing
@@ -126,11 +120,6 @@ usage: git describe [<options>] <commit-ish>*
     --long                always use long format
     --abbrev[=<n>]        use <n> digits to display SHA-1s
 ---------------------------------------------
-+
-Note that some subcommand (e.g. `git grep`) may behave differently
-when there are things on the command line other than `-h`, but `git
-subcmd -h` without anything else on the command line is meant to
-consistently give the usage.
 
 --help-all::
 	Some Git commands take options that are only used for plumbing or that
@@ -216,8 +205,8 @@ only affects the files in the working tree, but with
 entries, and with `--cached`, it modifies only the index
 entries.
 
-See also https://lore.kernel.org/git/7v64clg5u9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net/ and
-https://lore.kernel.org/git/7vy7ej9g38.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org/ for further
+See also http://marc.info/?l=git&m=116563135620359 and
+http://marc.info/?l=git&m=119150393620273 for further
 information.
 
 Some other commands that also work on files in the working tree and/or