diff --git a/Documentation/config/remote.txt b/Documentation/config/remote.txt
index 8efc53e836..36e771556c 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/remote.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/remote.txt
@@ -42,14 +42,15 @@ remote.<name>.mirror::
 	as if the `--mirror` option was given on the command line.
 
 remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate::
-	If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating
-	using linkgit:git-fetch[1] or the `update` subcommand of
-	linkgit:git-remote[1].
+	A deprecated synonym to `remote.<name>.skipFetchAll` (if
+	both are set in the configuration files with different
+	values, the value of the last occurrence will be used).
 
 remote.<name>.skipFetchAll::
-	If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating
-	using linkgit:git-fetch[1] or the `update` subcommand of
-	linkgit:git-remote[1].
+	If true, this remote will be skipped when updating
+	using linkgit:git-fetch[1], the `update` subcommand of
+	linkgit:git-remote[1], and ignored by the prefetch task
+	of `git maitenance`.
 
 remote.<name>.receivepack::
 	The default program to execute on the remote side when pushing.  See
diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
index e22b217fba..80838fe37e 100644
--- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 --[no-]all::
-	Fetch all remotes. This overrides the configuration variable
-	`fetch.all`.
+	Fetch all remotes, except for the ones that has the
+	`remote.<name>.skipFetchAll` configuration variable set.
+	This overrides the configuration variable fetch.all`.
 
 -a::
 --append::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt b/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt
index 51d0f7e94b..9d96819133 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt
@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ with the prefetch task, the objects necessary to complete a later real fetch
 would already be obtained, making the real fetch faster.  In the ideal case,
 it will just become an update to a bunch of remote-tracking branches without
 any object transfer.
++
+The `remote.<name>.skipFetchAll` configuration can be used to
+exclude a particular remote from getting prefetched.
 
 gc::
 	Clean up unnecessary files and optimize the local repository. "GC"