diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
index 36f00aed67..d5596672a5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	'git-daemon' will refuse to start when this option is enabled and no
 	whitelist is specified.
 
---base-path::
+--base-path=path::
 	Remap all the path requests as relative to the given path.
 	This is sort of "GIT root" - if you run 'git-daemon' with
 	'--base-path=/srv/git' on example.com, then if you later try to pull
@@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ OPTIONS
 	Incompatible with --port, --listen, --user and --group options.
 
 --listen=host_or_ipaddr::
-	Listen on an a specific IP address or hostname.  IP addresses can
-	be either an IPv4 address or an IPV6 address if supported.  If IPv6
+	Listen on a specific IP address or hostname.  IP addresses can
+	be either an IPv4 address or an IPv6 address if supported.  If IPv6
 	is not supported, then --listen=hostname is also not supported and
 	--listen must be given an IPv4 address.
 	Incompatible with '--inetd' option.
@@ -90,15 +90,15 @@ OPTIONS
 --port=n::
 	Listen on an alternative port.  Incompatible with '--inetd' option.
 
---init-timeout::
+--init-timeout=n::
 	Timeout between the moment the connection is established and the
 	client request is received (typically a rather low value, since
 	that should be basically immediate).
 
---timeout::
+--timeout=n::
 	Timeout for specific client sub-requests. This includes the time
-	it takes for the server to process the sub-request and time spent
-	waiting for next client's request.
+	it takes for the server to process the sub-request and the time spent
+	waiting for the next client's request.
 
 --max-connections::
 	Maximum number of concurrent clients, defaults to 32.  Set it to
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ the facility of inet daemon to achieve the same before spawning
 	Enable/disable the service site-wide per default.  Note
 	that a service disabled site-wide can still be enabled
 	per repository if it is marked overridable and the
-	repository enables the service with an configuration
+	repository enables the service with a configuration
 	item.
 
 --allow-override=service::
diff --git a/builtin-init-db.c b/builtin-init-db.c
index d30c3fe2ca..6cc945d507 100644
--- a/builtin-init-db.c
+++ b/builtin-init-db.c
@@ -122,8 +122,10 @@ static void copy_templates(const char *template_dir)
 		template_dir = system_path(DEFAULT_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR);
 	if (!template_dir[0])
 		return;
+	template_len = strlen(template_dir);
+	if (PATH_MAX <= (template_len+strlen("/config")))
+		die("insanely long template path %s", template_dir);
 	strcpy(template_path, template_dir);
-	template_len = strlen(template_path);
 	if (template_path[template_len-1] != '/') {
 		template_path[template_len++] = '/';
 		template_path[template_len] = 0;
diff --git a/t/t0001-init.sh b/t/t0001-init.sh
index 5ac0a273a9..e3d846420d 100755
--- a/t/t0001-init.sh
+++ b/t/t0001-init.sh
@@ -199,4 +199,13 @@ test_expect_success 'init honors global core.sharedRepository' '
 	x`git config -f shared-honor-global/.git/config core.sharedRepository`
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'init rejects insanely long --template' '
+	(
+		insane=$(printf "x%09999dx" 1) &&
+		mkdir test &&
+		cd test &&
+		test_must_fail git init --template=$insane
+	)
+'
+
 test_done