diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
index 65ac27e0c9..045b37b82e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 	     [ \--right-only ]
 	     [ \--cherry-mark ]
 	     [ \--cherry-pick ]
-	     [ \--encoding[=<encoding>] ]
+	     [ \--encoding=<encoding> ]
 	     [ \--(author|committer|grep)=<pattern> ]
 	     [ \--regexp-ignore-case | -i ]
 	     [ \--extended-regexp | -E ]
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
index 5e499421a4..eea0e306a8 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ people using 80-column terminals.
 	This is a shorthand for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit"
 	used together.
 
---encoding[=<encoding>]::
+--encoding=<encoding>::
 	The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message
 	in their encoding header; this option can be used to tell the
 	command to re-code the commit log message in the encoding