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diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi
index cb7502f..b4bb450 100644
--- a/doc/tar.texi
+++ b/doc/tar.texi
@@ -2009,7 +2009,7 @@ attention to them.
 Each option has at least one @dfn{long} (or @dfn{mnemonic}) name starting with two
 dashes in a row, e.g., @option{--list}.  The long names are more clear than
 their corresponding short or old names.  It sometimes happens that a
-single long option has many different different names which are
+single long option has many different names which are
 synonymous, such as @option{--compare} and @option{--diff}.  In addition,
 long option names can be given unique abbreviations.  For example,
 @option{--cre} can be used in place of @option{--create} because there is no
@@ -6495,13 +6495,10 @@ Any directory that contains this file will be excluded from the dump.
 @opindex exclude-tag
 @item --exclude-tag=@var{file}
 Causes @command{tar} to ignore directories containing @var{file}.
+Multiple @option{--exclude-tag} options can be given.
 @end table
 
-You can specify as many exclusion tags as you like.
-
-Notice, that when speaking about ``excluding the directory'' we mean
-that the files and subdirectories it contains will not get into the
-archive, while the entry for the directory itself will, e.g.:
+For example:
 
 @smallexample
 $ @kbd{find dir}
@@ -6510,17 +6507,15 @@ dir/blues
 dir/jazz
 dir/folk
 dir/folk/tagfile
-$ @kbd{tar -cf archive.tar --extract-tag=tagfile -v}
+$ @kbd{tar -cf archive.tar --exclude-tag=tagfile -v}
 dir/
 dir/blues
 dir/jazz
-dir/folk/
 ./tar: dir/folk/: contains a cache directory tag tagfile; not dumped
 $ @kbd{tar -tf archive.tar}
 dir/
 dir/blues
 dir/jazz
-dir/folk/
 @end smallexample
 
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