diff --git a/doc/045_working_with_repos.rst b/doc/045_working_with_repos.rst
index d5f2240b8..80ee82c6b 100644
--- a/doc/045_working_with_repos.rst
+++ b/doc/045_working_with_repos.rst
@@ -329,6 +329,19 @@ The options ``--exclude``, ``--exclude-file``, ``--iexclude`` and
 ``--iexclude-file`` are supported. They behave the same way as for the backup
 command, see :ref:`backup-excluding-files` for details.
 
+The options ``--include``, ``--include-file``, ``--iinclude`` and
+``--iinclude-file`` are supported as well.
+The ``--include`` variants allow you to reduce an exsiting snapshot or a set of snapshots
+to those files which your are really interested in. An example could be all pictures
+files from a snapshot:
+``restic rewrite -r ... --iinclude "*.jpg" --iinclude "*.jpeg" --iinclude "*.png"``.
+
+Empty subdirectories however will always be preserved.
+Totally empty subdirectories (apart from genuine ones)
+which have been completey evacuated will not be stored in the new snapshot.
+If you specify an ``--include`` pattern which will not include anything useful, you will still
+create a new snapshot if the original snapshot contained one or more empty subdirectories.
+
 It is possible to rewrite only a subset of snapshots by filtering them the same
 way as for the ``copy`` command, see :ref:`copy-filtering-snapshots`.