After being surprised that git-ls-files expands pathspecs, here's a patch
that would have saved me.
---
 Documentation/git-ls-files.txt | 9 +++++----
 Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt  | 8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
index e26f01f..f7a3039 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
                [--exclude-per-directory=<file>]
                [--exclude-standard]
                [--error-unmatch] [--with-tree=<tree-ish>]
-               [--full-name] [--abbrev] [--] [<file>...]
+               [--full-name] [--abbrev] [--] [<pathspec>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 --with-tree=<tree-ish>::
        When using --error-unmatch to expand the user supplied
-       <file> (i.e. path pattern) arguments to paths, pretend
+       <pathspec> arguments to paths, pretend
        that paths which were removed in the index since the
        named <tree-ish> are still present.  Using this option
        with `-s` or `-u` options does not make any sense.
@@ -150,9 +150,10 @@ a space) at the start of each line:
 \--::
        Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
 
-<file>::
+<pathspec>::
        Files to show. If no files are given all files which match the other
-       specified criteria are shown.
+       specified criteria are shown. (Note that this isn't really raw
+       pathnames, but rather a list of patterns to match.)
 
 Output
 ------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
index 16e87fd..58e7f64 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 [verse]
 'git ls-tree' [-d] [-r] [-t] [-l] [-z]
            [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--full-tree] 
[--abbrev[=<n>]]
-           <tree-ish> [<path>...]
+           <tree-ish> [<pathspec>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ Lists the contents of a given tree object, like what 
"/bin/ls -a" does
 in the current working directory.  Note that:
 
  - the behaviour is slightly different from that of "/bin/ls" in that the
-   '<path>' denotes just a list of patterns to match, e.g. so specifying
+   '<pathspec>' denotes just a list of patterns to match, e.g. so specifying
    directory name (without '-r') will behave differently, and order of the
    arguments does not matter.
 
- - the behaviour is similar to that of "/bin/ls" in that the '<path>' is
+ - the behaviour is similar to that of "/bin/ls" in that the '<pathspec>' is
    taken as relative to the current working directory.  E.g. when you are
    in a directory 'sub' that has a directory 'dir', you can run 'git
    ls-tree -r HEAD dir' to list the contents of the tree (that is
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ OPTIONS
        Do not limit the listing to the current working directory.
        Implies --full-name.
 
-[<path>...]::
+[<pathspec>...]::
        When paths are given, show them (note that this isn't really raw
        pathnames, but rather a list of patterns to match).  Otherwise
        implicitly uses the root level of the tree as the sole path argument.
-- 
2.1.4

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