diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index fbd239448..d55456ae9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -24,13 +24,13 @@ OPTIONS
 
 <option>...::
 	Either an option to pass to `grep` or `git-ls-files`.
-
-	The following are the specific `git-ls-files` options
-	that may be given: `-o`, `--cached`, `--deleted`, `--others`,
-	`--killed`, `--ignored`, `--modified`, `--exclude=*`,
-	`--exclude-from=*`, and `--exclude-per-directory=*`.
-
-	All other options will be passed to `grep`.
++
+The following are the specific `git-ls-files` options
+that may be given: `-o`, `--cached`, `--deleted`, `--others`,
+`--killed`, `--ignored`, `--modified`, `--exclude=\*`,
+`--exclude-from=\*`, and `--exclude-per-directory=\*`.
++
+All other options will be passed to `grep`.
 
 <pattern>::
 	The pattern to look for.  The first non option is taken
diff --git a/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt b/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt
index f02f939ba..641cb7ea9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt
@@ -47,9 +47,9 @@ OPTIONS
 	By default, differences for merge commits are not shown.
 	With this flag, show differences to that commit from all
 	of its parents.
-
-	However, it is not very useful in general, although it
-	*is* useful on a file-by-file basis.
++
+However, it is not very useful in general, although it
+*is* useful on a file-by-file basis.
 
 Examples
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