diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
index 8bb5a0b36b2850de05e6a1588ad236acc82aa882..beab7f0a54810824a9a6737a819b025f66d32933 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -64,6 +64,18 @@ OPTIONS
 	Frontends can use this file to validate imports after they
 	have been completed.
 
+--quiet::
+	Disable all non-fatal output, making gfi silent when it
+	is successful.	This option disables the output shown by
+	\--stats.
+
+--stats::
+	Display some basic statistics about the objects gfi has
+	created, the packfiles they were stored into, and the
+	memory used by gfi during this run.  Showing this output
+	is currently the default, but can be disabled with \--quiet.
+
+
 Performance
 -----------
 The design of gfi allows it to import large projects in a minimum
@@ -106,8 +118,8 @@ fast-forward update, gfi will skip updating that ref and instead
 prints a warning message.  gfi will always attempt to update all
 branch refs, and does not stop on the first failure.
 
-Branch updates can be forced with `--force`, but its recommended that
-this only be used on an otherwise quiet repository.  Using `--force`
+Branch updates can be forced with \--force, but its recommended that
+this only be used on an otherwise quiet repository.  Using \--force
 is not necessary for an initial import into an empty repository.
 
 
@@ -148,11 +160,11 @@ Date Formats
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
 The following date formats are supported.  A frontend should select
 the format it will use for this import by passing the format name
-in the `--date-format=<fmt>` command line option.
+in the \--date-format=<fmt> command line option.
 
 `raw`::
 	This is the Git native format and is `<time> SP <offutc>`.
-	It is also gfi's default format, if `--date-format` was
+	It is also gfi's default format, if \--date-format was
 	not specified.
 +
 The time of the event is specified by `<time>` as the number of
@@ -321,7 +333,7 @@ the email address from the other fields in the line.  Note that
 `LT` and `LF`.  It is typically UTF-8 encoded.
 
 The time of the change is specified by `<when>` using the date format
-that was selected by the `--date-format=<fmt>` command line option.
+that was selected by the \--date-format=<fmt> command line option.
 See ``Date Formats'' above for the set of supported formats, and
 their syntax.
 
@@ -735,7 +747,7 @@ branch, their in-memory storage size can grow to a considerable size
 gfi automatically moves active branches to inactive status based on
 a simple least-recently-used algorithm.  The LRU chain is updated on
 each `commit` command.  The maximum number of active branches can be
-increased or decreased on the command line with `--active-branches=`.
+increased or decreased on the command line with \--active-branches=.
 
 per active tree
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/fast-import.c b/fast-import.c
index f80ddee2fabab63fa808c558558ebcca2490d548..858df17f35efe2ab610c501744ec65b621a8f53d 100644
--- a/fast-import.c
+++ b/fast-import.c
@@ -1950,8 +1950,7 @@ static const char fast_import_usage[] =
 
 int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 {
-	int i;
-	uintmax_t total_count, duplicate_count;
+	int i, show_stats = 1;
 
 	git_config(git_default_config);
 
@@ -1981,6 +1980,10 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 			mark_file = a + 15;
 		else if (!strcmp(a, "--force"))
 			force_update = 1;
+		else if (!strcmp(a, "--quiet"))
+			show_stats = 0;
+		else if (!strcmp(a, "--stats"))
+			show_stats = 1;
 		else
 			die("unknown option %s", a);
 	}
@@ -2020,31 +2023,32 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 	unkeep_all_packs();
 	dump_marks();
 
-	total_count = 0;
-	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(object_count_by_type); i++)
-		total_count += object_count_by_type[i];
-	duplicate_count = 0;
-	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(duplicate_count_by_type); i++)
-		duplicate_count += duplicate_count_by_type[i];
-
-	fprintf(stderr, "%s statistics:\n", argv[0]);
-	fprintf(stderr, "---------------------------------------------------------------------\n");
-	fprintf(stderr, "Alloc'd objects: %10ju\n", alloc_count);
-	fprintf(stderr, "Total objects:   %10ju (%10ju duplicates                  )\n", total_count, duplicate_count);
-	fprintf(stderr, "      blobs  :   %10ju (%10ju duplicates %10ju deltas)\n", object_count_by_type[OBJ_BLOB], duplicate_count_by_type[OBJ_BLOB], delta_count_by_type[OBJ_BLOB]);
-	fprintf(stderr, "      trees  :   %10ju (%10ju duplicates %10ju deltas)\n", object_count_by_type[OBJ_TREE], duplicate_count_by_type[OBJ_TREE], delta_count_by_type[OBJ_TREE]);
-	fprintf(stderr, "      commits:   %10ju (%10ju duplicates %10ju deltas)\n", object_count_by_type[OBJ_COMMIT], duplicate_count_by_type[OBJ_COMMIT], delta_count_by_type[OBJ_COMMIT]);
-	fprintf(stderr, "      tags   :   %10ju (%10ju duplicates %10ju deltas)\n", object_count_by_type[OBJ_TAG], duplicate_count_by_type[OBJ_TAG], delta_count_by_type[OBJ_TAG]);
-	fprintf(stderr, "Total branches:  %10lu (%10lu loads     )\n", branch_count, branch_load_count);
-	fprintf(stderr, "      marks:     %10ju (%10ju unique    )\n", (((uintmax_t)1) << marks->shift) * 1024, marks_set_count);
-	fprintf(stderr, "      atoms:     %10u\n", atom_cnt);
-	fprintf(stderr, "Memory total:    %10ju KiB\n", (total_allocd + alloc_count*sizeof(struct object_entry))/1024);
-	fprintf(stderr, "       pools:    %10lu KiB\n", total_allocd/1024);
-	fprintf(stderr, "     objects:    %10ju KiB\n", (alloc_count*sizeof(struct object_entry))/1024);
-	fprintf(stderr, "---------------------------------------------------------------------\n");
-	pack_report();
-	fprintf(stderr, "---------------------------------------------------------------------\n");
-	fprintf(stderr, "\n");
+	if (show_stats) {
+		uintmax_t total_count = 0, duplicate_count = 0;
+		for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(object_count_by_type); i++)
+			total_count += object_count_by_type[i];
+		for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(duplicate_count_by_type); i++)
+			duplicate_count += duplicate_count_by_type[i];
+
+		fprintf(stderr, "%s statistics:\n", argv[0]);
+		fprintf(stderr, "---------------------------------------------------------------------\n");
+		fprintf(stderr, "Alloc'd objects: %10ju\n", alloc_count);
+		fprintf(stderr, "Total objects:   %10ju (%10ju duplicates                  )\n", total_count, duplicate_count);
+		fprintf(stderr, "      blobs  :   %10ju (%10ju duplicates %10ju deltas)\n", object_count_by_type[OBJ_BLOB], duplicate_count_by_type[OBJ_BLOB], delta_count_by_type[OBJ_BLOB]);
+		fprintf(stderr, "      trees  :   %10ju (%10ju duplicates %10ju deltas)\n", object_count_by_type[OBJ_TREE], duplicate_count_by_type[OBJ_TREE], delta_count_by_type[OBJ_TREE]);
+		fprintf(stderr, "      commits:   %10ju (%10ju duplicates %10ju deltas)\n", object_count_by_type[OBJ_COMMIT], duplicate_count_by_type[OBJ_COMMIT], delta_count_by_type[OBJ_COMMIT]);
+		fprintf(stderr, "      tags   :   %10ju (%10ju duplicates %10ju deltas)\n", object_count_by_type[OBJ_TAG], duplicate_count_by_type[OBJ_TAG], delta_count_by_type[OBJ_TAG]);
+		fprintf(stderr, "Total branches:  %10lu (%10lu loads     )\n", branch_count, branch_load_count);
+		fprintf(stderr, "      marks:     %10ju (%10ju unique    )\n", (((uintmax_t)1) << marks->shift) * 1024, marks_set_count);
+		fprintf(stderr, "      atoms:     %10u\n", atom_cnt);
+		fprintf(stderr, "Memory total:    %10ju KiB\n", (total_allocd + alloc_count*sizeof(struct object_entry))/1024);
+		fprintf(stderr, "       pools:    %10lu KiB\n", total_allocd/1024);
+		fprintf(stderr, "     objects:    %10ju KiB\n", (alloc_count*sizeof(struct object_entry))/1024);
+		fprintf(stderr, "---------------------------------------------------------------------\n");
+		pack_report();
+		fprintf(stderr, "---------------------------------------------------------------------\n");
+		fprintf(stderr, "\n");
+	}
 
 	return failure ? 1 : 0;
 }