diff --git a/src/borg/archiver/lock_cmds.py b/src/borg/archiver/lock_cmds.py
index 9cf11c0c5e..1ea294acc1 100644
--- a/src/borg/archiver/lock_cmds.py
+++ b/src/borg/archiver/lock_cmds.py
@@ -73,7 +73,11 @@ def build_parser_locks(self, subparsers, common_parser, mid_common_parser):
 
         with_lock_epilog = process_epilog(
             """
-        This command runs a user-specified command while the repository lock is held.
+        This command runs a user-specified command while locking the repository. For example:
+
+        ::
+
+            $ BORG_REPO=/mnt/borgrepo borg with-lock rsync -av /mnt/borgrepo /somewhere/else/borgrepo
 
         It will first try to acquire the lock (make sure that no other operation is
         running in the repo), then execute the given command as a subprocess and wait