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diff --git a/dgit-maint-native.7.pod b/dgit-maint-native.7.pod
index 03aee59b..ac57728c 100644
--- a/dgit-maint-native.7.pod
+++ b/dgit-maint-native.7.pod
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ Simply prepare your git tree in the usual way, and then:
 
 (Do not make any tags yourself: dgit push will do that.)
 
+You may use B<dgit pbuilder> or B<dgit cowbuilder>
+instead of B<dgit sbuild>;
+see dgit(1) for the syntax of those subcommands.
+
 The --overwrite option tells dgit that you are expecting
 that your git history is not a descendant of the
 history which dgit synthesised from the previous
@@ -78,6 +82,14 @@ so that your history,
 which will be pushed to the dgit git server,
 is fast forward from the dgit archive view.
 
+Alternatively,
+if this was the first ever dgit push of the package,
+you can avoid this merge commit by
+passing C<--deliberately-not-fast-forward>.
+instead of C<--overwrite>.
+This avoids introducing a new origin commit into
+your git history.
+
 =head1 SUBSEQUENT PUSHES
 
 =over 4