There are broadly two problems with the current SYNOPSIS.  First, it
completely omits the detail that paths can be specified.  Second, it
attempts to list all the options: this is futile as, in addition to
the options unique to it, it accepts all the options that git-rev-list
accepts.  In fixing these problems, make the SYNOPSIS consistent with
that in git-log.txt.  Also add the corresponding sections to OPTIONS.
Save adding the options from rev-list-options.txt for a later patch,
as it requires some work to pick out the options that are relevant to
shortlog.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artag...@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-shortlog.txt | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
index c7f7f51..31af7f2 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ git-shortlog - Summarize 'git log' output
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-git log --pretty=short | 'git shortlog' [-h] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-w]
-'git shortlog' [-n|--numbered] [-s|--summary] [-e|--email] 
[-w[<width>[,<indent1>[,<indent2>]]]] <commit>...
+git log --pretty=short | 'git shortlog' [<options>]
+'git shortlog' [<options>] [<revision range>] [[\--] <path>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -56,6 +56,21 @@ OPTIONS
 If width is `0` (zero) then indent the lines of the output without wrapping
 them.
 
+<revision range>::
+       Show only commits in the specified revision range.  When no
+       <revision range> is specified, it defaults to `HEAD` (i.e. the
+       whole history leading to the current commit).  `origin..HEAD`
+       specifies all the commits reachable from the current commit
+       (i.e. `HEAD`), but not from `origin`. For a complete list of
+       ways to spell <revision range>, see the "Specifying Ranges"
+       section of linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
+
+[\--] <path>...::
+       Consider only commits that are enough to explain how the files
+       that match the specified paths came to be.
++
+Paths may need to be prefixed with "\-- " to separate them from
+options or the revision range, when confusion arises.
 
 MAPPING AUTHORS
 ---------------
-- 
1.8.2.1.501.gd2949c7

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