diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-push.txt b/Documentation/git-http-push.txt
index 7e1f894a92f396e3354c94c9ce3339edc37b59df..c2485c6e9cdc2c6ec8c6fd876ed19758d6c5bb84 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-http-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-http-push.txt
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	Report the list of objects being walked locally and the
 	list of objects successfully sent to the remote repository.
 
-<ref>...:
+<ref>...::
 	The remote refs to update.
 
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
index 9e67f1730261a20ffa8c22b682c9207856901534..5376f685486c6f19cbe6ea3b8391cac5b50c593b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ OPTIONS
 <directory>::
 	The repository to update.
 
-<ref>...:
+<ref>...::
 	The remote refs to update.
 
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
index 1601d2267c34fec24ab527caa55d35a3c52c8063..d54fc3e5c6d7ba3be31fa2c1238e2d7039c92e74 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ OPTIONS
 	Sort output according to the number of commits per author instead
 	of author alphabetic order.
 
--s:
-	Supress commit description and Provide a commit count summary only.
+-s::
+	Supress commit description and provide a commit count summary only.
 
 FILES
 -----
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary.txt b/Documentation/glossary.txt
index 14449ca8baeb7c2c979d0fd3f61ce683fd8e08ce..7e560b0eea83ae7b32e17095f766d84c0b67671f 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary.txt
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ object name::
 	character hexadecimal encoding of the hash of the object (possibly
 	followed by a white space).
 
-object type:
+object type::
 	One of the identifiers "commit","tree","tag" and "blob" describing
 	the type of an object.
 
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ tag::
 	A tag is most typically used to mark a particular point in the
 	commit ancestry chain.
 
-unmerged index:
+unmerged index::
 	An index which contains unmerged index entries.
 
 working tree::