diff --git a/Documentation/git-rm.txt b/Documentation/git-rm.txt
index 3a8f279e1a..6feebc0400 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rm.txt
@@ -60,21 +60,17 @@ a file that you have not told git about does not remove that file.
 EXAMPLES
 --------
 git-rm Documentation/\\*.txt::
-
 	Removes all `\*.txt` files from the index that are under the
-	`Documentation` directory and any of its subdirectories. The
-	files are not removed from the working tree.
+	`Documentation` directory and any of its subdirectories.
 +
 Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
 example; this lets the command include the files from
 subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
 
 git-rm -f git-*.sh::
-
-	Remove all git-*.sh scripts that are in the index. The files
-	are removed from the index, and from the working
-	tree. Because this example lets the shell expand the
-	asterisk (i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it
+	Remove all git-*.sh scripts that are in the index.
+	Because this example lets the shell expand the asterisk
+	(i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it
 	does not remove `subdir/git-foo.sh`.
 
 See Also
diff --git a/builtin-rm.c b/builtin-rm.c
index d81f289c3c..00dbe39960 100644
--- a/builtin-rm.c
+++ b/builtin-rm.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 #include "tree-walk.h"
 
 static const char builtin_rm_usage[] =
-"git-rm [-n] [-f] [--cached] <filepattern>...";
+"git-rm [-f] [-n] [-r] [--cached] [--] <file>...";
 
 static struct {
 	int nr, alloc;