diff --git a/docs/man/man1/reagent.1 b/docs/man/man1/reagent.1
index 052e4162c..003a735b9 100644
--- a/docs/man/man1/reagent.1
+++ b/docs/man/man1/reagent.1
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
 .\" ========================================================================
 .\"
 .IX Title "REAGENT 1"
-.TH REAGENT 1 "2011-04-29" "perl v5.12.2" "Entropy"
+.TH REAGENT 1 "2011-08-03" "perl v5.12.3" "Entropy"
 .\" For nroff, turn off justification.  Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
 .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
 .if n .ad l
@@ -253,9 +253,9 @@ print results in a scriptable way
 .IX Item "repo"
 manage a repository
 .RS 4
-.IP "\fB\-\-initialize\fR" 4
-.IX Item "--initialize"
-(re)initialize the current repository database
+.IP "\fBinit\fR" 4
+.IX Item "init"
+(re)initialize the current repository
 .IP "\fBbump\fR" 4
 .IX Item "bump"
 manually force a revision bump for the current repository database
diff --git a/docs/man/reagent.pod b/docs/man/reagent.pod
index 7f20834f8..311d26975 100644
--- a/docs/man/reagent.pod
+++ b/docs/man/reagent.pod
@@ -167,9 +167,9 @@ manage a repository
 =over
 
 
-=item B<--initialize>
+=item B<init>
 
-(re)initialize the current repository database
+(re)initialize the current repository
 
 
 =item B<bump>