diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index afb06adba4..8c74a2ca03 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -196,11 +196,12 @@ whitespace::
 verbatim::
 	Do not change the message at all.
 scissors::
-	Same as `whitespace`, except that everything from (and
-	including) the line
-	"`# ------------------------ >8 ------------------------`"
-	is truncated if the message is to be edited. "`#`" can be
-	customized with core.commentChar.
+	Same as `whitespace` except that everything from (and including)
+	the line found below is truncated, if the message is to be edited.
+	"`#`" can be customized with core.commentChar.
+
+		# ------------------------ >8 ------------------------
+
 default::
 	Same as `strip` if the message is to be edited.
 	Otherwise `whitespace`.
diff --git a/Documentation/i18n.txt b/Documentation/i18n.txt
index 2dd79db5cb..7e36e5b55b 100644
--- a/Documentation/i18n.txt
+++ b/Documentation/i18n.txt
@@ -42,11 +42,11 @@ mind.
 +
 ------------
 [i18n]
-	commitencoding = ISO-8859-1
+	commitEncoding = ISO-8859-1
 ------------
 +
 Commit objects created with the above setting record the value
-of `i18n.commitencoding` in its `encoding` header.  This is to
+of `i18n.commitEncoding` in its `encoding` header.  This is to
 help other people who look at them later.  Lack of this header
 implies that the commit log message is encoded in UTF-8.
 
@@ -54,15 +54,15 @@ implies that the commit log message is encoded in UTF-8.
   `encoding` header of a commit object, and try to re-code the
   log message into UTF-8 unless otherwise specified.  You can
   specify the desired output encoding with
-  `i18n.logoutputencoding` in `.git/config` file, like this:
+  `i18n.logOutputEncoding` in `.git/config` file, like this:
 +
 ------------
 [i18n]
-	logoutputencoding = ISO-8859-1
+	logOutputEncoding = ISO-8859-1
 ------------
 +
 If you do not have this configuration variable, the value of
-`i18n.commitencoding` is used instead.
+`i18n.commitEncoding` is used instead.
 
 Note that we deliberately chose not to re-code the commit log
 message when a commit is made to force UTF-8 at the commit