diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
index eb8f906837..6702a18c7e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-apply - Apply patch on a git index file and a work tree
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply] [--index-info] [-z] [<patch>...]
+'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply] [--no-add] [--index-info] [-z] [<patch>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -72,6 +72,12 @@ OPTIONS
 	patch.  Give this flag after those flags to also apply
 	the patch.
 
+--no-add::
+	When applying a patch, ignore additions made by the
+	patch.  This can be used to extract common part between
+	two files by first running `diff` on them and applying
+	the result with this option, which would apply the
+	deletion part but not addition part.
 
 Author
 ------
diff --git a/apply.c b/apply.c
index 472bcdc369..34181188b8 100644
--- a/apply.c
+++ b/apply.c
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ static int no_add = 0;
 static int show_index_info = 0;
 static int line_termination = '\n';
 static const char apply_usage[] =
-"git-apply [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply] [--index-info] [-z] <patch>...";
+"git-apply [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply] [--no-add] [--index-info] [-z] <patch>...";
 
 /*
  * For "diff-stat" like behaviour, we keep track of the biggest change