diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
index 8e70a61840b..9f23a861ce3 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ Apart from supporting file annotation, Git also supports searching the
 development history for when a code snippet occurred in a change. This makes it
 possible to track when a code snippet was added to a file, moved or copied
 between files, and eventually deleted or replaced. It works by searching for
-a text string in the diff. A small example:
+a text string in the diff. A small example of the pickaxe interface
+that searches for `blame_usage`:
 
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 $ git log --pretty=oneline -S'blame_usage'