diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
index 3ae6e74573..41bb7e12e3 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 	     [--cacheinfo <mode> <object> <file>]\*
 	     [--chmod=(+|-)x]
 	     [--assume-unchanged | --no-assume-unchanged]
-	     [--really-refresh] [--unresolve] [--again]
+	     [--really-refresh] [--unresolve] [--again | -g]
 	     [--info-only] [--index-info]
 	     [-z] [--stdin]
 	     [--verbose]
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	filesystem that has very slow lstat(2) system call
 	(e.g. cifs).
 
---again::
+--again, -g::
 	Runs `git-update-index` itself on the paths whose index
 	entries are different from those from the `HEAD` commit.
 
diff --git a/builtin-update-index.c b/builtin-update-index.c
index 5dd91af180..75c0abb96c 100644
--- a/builtin-update-index.c
+++ b/builtin-update-index.c
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ static void read_index_info(int line_termination)
 }
 
 static const char update_index_usage[] =
-"git-update-index [-q] [--add] [--replace] [--remove] [--unmerged] [--refresh] [--really-refresh] [--cacheinfo] [--chmod=(+|-)x] [--assume-unchanged] [--info-only] [--force-remove] [--stdin] [--index-info] [--unresolve] [--again] [--ignore-missing] [-z] [--verbose] [--] <file>...";
+"git-update-index [-q] [--add] [--replace] [--remove] [--unmerged] [--refresh] [--really-refresh] [--cacheinfo] [--chmod=(+|-)x] [--assume-unchanged] [--info-only] [--force-remove] [--stdin] [--index-info] [--unresolve] [--again | -g] [--ignore-missing] [-z] [--verbose] [--] <file>...";
 
 static unsigned char head_sha1[20];
 static unsigned char merge_head_sha1[20];
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ int cmd_update_index(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 					active_cache_changed = 0;
 				goto finish;
 			}
-			if (!strcmp(path, "--again")) {
+			if (!strcmp(path, "--again") || !strcmp(path, "-g")) {
 				has_errors = do_reupdate(argc - i, argv + i,
 							 prefix, prefix_length);
 				if (has_errors)