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diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index 68f97cd5a..c1193953a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -125,6 +125,10 @@ You can use the 'map' convenience function in this filter, and other
 convenience functions, too.  For example, calling 'skip_commit "$@"'
 will leave out the current commit (but not its changes! If you want
 that, use 'git-rebase' instead).
++
+You can also use the 'git_commit_non_empty_tree "$@"' instead of
+'git commit-tree "$@"' if you don't wish to keep commits with a single parent
+and that makes no change to the tree.
 
 --tag-name-filter <command>::
 	This is the filter for rewriting tag names. When passed,
@@ -154,6 +158,16 @@ to other tags will be rewritten to point to the underlying commit.
 	The result will contain that directory (and only that) as its
 	project root.
 
+--prune-empty::
+	Some kind of filters will generate empty commits, that left the tree
+	untouched.  This switch allow git-filter-branch to ignore such
+	commits.  Though, this switch only applies for commits that have one
+	and only one parent, it will hence keep merges points. Also, this
+	option is not compatible with the use of '--commit-filter'. Though you
+	just need to use the function 'git_commit_non_empty_tree "$@"' instead
+	of the 'git commit-tree "$@"' idiom in your commit filter to make that
+	happen.
+
 --original <namespace>::
 	Use this option to set the namespace where the original commits
 	will be stored. The default value is 'refs/original'.
@@ -201,6 +215,11 @@ git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached filename' HEAD
 
 Now, you will get the rewritten history saved in HEAD.
 
+As with using `rm filename`, `git rm --cached filename` will fail
+if the file is absent from the tree of a commit.  If it is not important
+whether the file is already absent from the tree, you can use
+`git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch filename` instead.
+
 To rewrite the repository to look as if `foodir/` had been its project
 root, and discard all other history:
 
@@ -323,6 +342,47 @@ git filter-branch --index-filter \
 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
+
+Checklist for Shrinking a Repository
+------------------------------------
+
+git-filter-branch is often used to get rid of a subset of files,
+usually with some combination of `\--index-filter` and
+`\--subdirectory-filter`.  People expect the resulting repository to
+be smaller than the original, but you need a few more steps to
+actually make it smaller, because git tries hard not to lose your
+objects until you tell it to.  First make sure that:
+
+* You really removed all variants of a filename, if a blob was moved
+  over its lifetime.  `git log \--name-only \--follow \--all \--
+  filename` can help you find renames.
+
+* You really filtered all refs: use `\--tag-name-filter cat \--
+  \--all` when calling git-filter-branch.
+
+Then there are two ways to get a smaller repository.  A safer way is
+to clone, that keeps your original intact.
+
+* Clone it with `git clone +++file:///path/to/repo+++`.  The clone
+  will not have the removed objects.  See linkgit:git-clone[1].  (Note
+  that cloning with a plain path just hardlinks everything!)
+
+If you really don't want to clone it, for whatever reasons, check the
+following points instead (in this order).  This is a very destructive
+approach, so *make a backup* or go back to cloning it.  You have been
+warned.
+
+* Remove the original refs backed up by git-filter-branch: say `git
+  for-each-ref \--format="%(refname)" refs/original/ | xargs -n 1 git
+  update-ref -d`.
+
+* Expire all reflogs with `git reflog expire \--expire=now \--all`.
+
+* Garbage collect all unreferenced objects with `git gc \--prune=now`
+  (or if your git-gc is not new enough to support arguments to
+  `\--prune`, use `git repack -ad; git prune` instead).
+
+
 Author
 ------
 Written by Petr "Pasky" Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>,