diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index b231dbb947791bb4fc5cde552e8c736b3558ca0a..e9dbca7d87bade4126cd45477b69478894518168 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ OPTIONS
 
 --abbrev=<n>::
 	Instead of using the default 7 hexadecimal digits as the
-	abbreviated object name, use <n> digits.
+	abbreviated object name, use <n> digits, or as many digits
+	as needed to form a unique object name.  An <n> of 0
+	will suppress long format, only showing the closest tag.
 
 --candidates=<n>::
 	Instead of considering only the 10 most recent tags as
@@ -68,8 +70,8 @@ OPTIONS
 	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....).
+	describe such a commit as v1.2-0-gdeadbee (0th commit since tag v1.2
+	that points at object deadbee....).
 
 --match <pattern>::
 	Only consider tags matching the given pattern (can be used to avoid
@@ -108,7 +110,7 @@ the output shows the reference path as well:
 	[torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --all --abbrev=4 v1.0.5^2
 	tags/v1.0.0-21-g975b
 
-	[torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --all HEAD^
+	[torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --all --abbrev=4 HEAD^
 	heads/lt/describe-7-g975b
 
 With --abbrev set to 0, the command can be used to find the
@@ -117,6 +119,13 @@ closest tagname without any suffix:
 	[torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --abbrev=0 v1.0.5^2
 	tags/v1.0.0
 
+Note that the suffix you get if you type these commands today may be
+longer than what Linus saw above when he ran this command, as your
+git repository may have new commits whose object names begin with
+975b that did not exist back then, and "-g975b" suffix alone may not
+be sufficient to disambiguate these commits.
+
+
 SEARCH STRATEGY
 ---------------
 
diff --git a/builtin-clone.c b/builtin-clone.c
index 5762a6f9d8191c79d4fd66d227038d59ab1e785e..caf3025031d83dc860b22c7798dd5f40b6b89ed2 100644
--- a/builtin-clone.c
+++ b/builtin-clone.c
@@ -51,7 +51,9 @@ static struct option builtin_clone_options[] = {
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('n', "no-checkout", &option_no_checkout,
 		    "don't create a checkout"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "bare", &option_bare, "create a bare repository"),
-	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "naked", &option_bare, "create a bare repository"),
+	{ OPTION_BOOLEAN, 0, "naked", &option_bare, NULL,
+		"create a bare repository",
+		PARSE_OPT_NOARG | PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN },
 	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "mirror", &option_mirror,
 		    "create a mirror repository (implies bare)"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('l', "local", &option_local,
@@ -61,7 +63,7 @@ static struct option builtin_clone_options[] = {
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('s', "shared", &option_shared,
 		    "setup as shared repository"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "recursive", &option_recursive,
-		    "setup as shared repository"),
+		    "initialize submodules in the clone"),
 	OPT_STRING(0, "template", &option_template, "path",
 		   "path the template repository"),
 	OPT_STRING(0, "reference", &option_reference, "repo",
@@ -377,8 +379,13 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, builtin_clone_options,
 			     builtin_clone_usage, 0);
 
+	if (argc > 2)
+		usage_msg_opt("Too many arguments.",
+			builtin_clone_usage, builtin_clone_options);
+
 	if (argc == 0)
-		die("You must specify a repository to clone.");
+		usage_msg_opt("You must specify a repository to clone.",
+			builtin_clone_usage, builtin_clone_options);
 
 	if (option_mirror)
 		option_bare = 1;
diff --git a/builtin-push.c b/builtin-push.c
index b5cd2cdad04548f053d0a9ff24e661d4c3ee1d39..8631c06ed6cfdfe12286c5c72ee3f2b733be8986 100644
--- a/builtin-push.c
+++ b/builtin-push.c
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ int cmd_push(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		OPT_BIT( 0 , "all", &flags, "push all refs", TRANSPORT_PUSH_ALL),
 		OPT_BIT( 0 , "mirror", &flags, "mirror all refs",
 			    (TRANSPORT_PUSH_MIRROR|TRANSPORT_PUSH_FORCE)),
-		OPT_BOOLEAN( 0 , "tags", &tags, "push tags (can't be used with --all or --mirror"),
+		OPT_BOOLEAN( 0 , "tags", &tags, "push tags (can't be used with --all or --mirror)"),
 		OPT_BIT('n' , "dry-run", &flags, "dry run", TRANSPORT_PUSH_DRY_RUN),
 		OPT_BIT( 0,  "porcelain", &flags, "machine-readable output", TRANSPORT_PUSH_PORCELAIN),
 		OPT_BIT('f', "force", &flags, "force updates", TRANSPORT_PUSH_FORCE),