diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index a3edc00246..7ba9dab5e6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ Thus you may instead want to use `rm -f filename` as the script.
 A significantly faster version:
 
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-git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove filename' HEAD
+git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached filename' HEAD
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 Now, you will get the rewritten history saved in HEAD.