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diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1
index a4b16943..16c0a011 100644
--- a/dgit.1
+++ b/dgit.1
@@ -346,6 +346,8 @@ For why, see
 .B GITATTRIBUTES
 in
 .BR dgit(7) .
+Note that only attributes affecting the working tree are suppressed.
+git-archive may remain exciting.
 
 If there is an existing macro attribute line
 .B [attr]dgit-defuse-attrs
@@ -471,6 +473,26 @@ to cause it to exclude exactly the .git diredcory
 and nothing else.
 The separate arguments are unquoted, separated by spaces,
 and do not contain spaces.
+.TP
+.B dgit print-unapplied-treeish
+Constructs a tree-ish approximating the patches-unapplied state
+of your 3.0 (quilt) package,
+and prints the git object name to stdout.
+This requires appropriate .orig tarballs.
+This tree object is identical to your .origs
+as regards upstream files.
+The contents of the debian subdirectory is not interesting
+and should not be inspected;
+except that debian/patches will be identical to your HEAD.
+
+To make this operate off-line,
+the access configuration key
+which is used to determine the build-products-dir
+is the uncanonicalised version of the suite name from the changelog,
+or (of course) dgit.default.build-products-dir.
+See ACCESS CONFIGURATION, below.
+
+This function is primarily provided for the benefit of git-debrebase.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
 .BR --dry-run " | " -n
@@ -584,6 +606,13 @@ your git branch is not a descendant
 of the version in the archive
 according to the git revision history.
 
+It is safer not to specify
+.IR previous-version ,
+and usually it's not needed.
+Just say
+.BR --overwrite ,
+unless you know what you are doing.
+
 This option is useful if you are the maintainer, and you have
 incorporated NMU changes into your own git workflow in a way that
 doesn't make your branch a fast forward from the NMU.
@@ -661,7 +690,7 @@ Also,
 it can mean that
 dgit fails to find necessary git commits.
 .TP
-.BR --dgit-view-save= \fIbranch\fR|\fIref\fR
+.BR --save-dgit-view= \fIbranch\fR|\fIref\fR
 Specifies that when a split view quilt mode is in operation,
 and dgit calculates
 (or looks up in its cache)
@@ -681,6 +710,10 @@ And it is only effective with
 If ref does not start with refs/
 it is taken to to be a branch -
 i.e. refs/heads/ is prepended.
+
+.B --dgit-view-save
+is a deprecated alias for
+--save-dgit-view.
 .TP
 .BI --deliberately- something
 Declare that you are deliberately doing