diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 97b09a9985..780f0f0ee6 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -3952,3 +3952,7 @@ CVS, Subversion, and just imports of series of release tarballs.
 More details on gitweb?
 
 Write a chapter on using plumbing and writing scripts.
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+Alternates, clone -reference, etc.
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+git unpack-objects -r for recovery