diff --git a/CHANGELOG.asciidoc b/CHANGELOG.asciidoc
index efe83cd4c..d0e412ced 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.asciidoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.asciidoc
@@ -147,6 +147,8 @@ Changed
   `prev`/`next`/`last-used` to remove ambiguity.
 - The `ui -> user-stylesheet` setting now only takes filenames, not CSS snippets
 - `ui -> window-title-format` now has a new `{backend} ` replacement
+- `:hint` has a new `--add-history` argument to add the URL to the history for
+  yank/spawn targets.
 
 Deprecated
 ~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/README.asciidoc b/README.asciidoc
index 28614d3ae..fea1101b6 100644
--- a/README.asciidoc
+++ b/README.asciidoc
@@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ Contributors, sorted by the number of commits in descending order:
 * Jonas Schürmann
 * error800
 * Michael Hoang
+* Maciej Wołczyk
 * Liam BEGUIN
 * Julie Engel
 * skinnay
diff --git a/doc/help/commands.asciidoc b/doc/help/commands.asciidoc
index 478e82258..4151eb892 100644
--- a/doc/help/commands.asciidoc
+++ b/doc/help/commands.asciidoc
@@ -341,7 +341,8 @@ Show help about a command or setting.
 
 [[hint]]
 === hint
-Syntax: +:hint [*--rapid*] [*--mode* 'mode'] ['group'] ['target'] ['args' ['args' ...]]+
+Syntax: +:hint [*--rapid*] [*--mode* 'mode'] [*--add-history*]
+     ['group'] ['target'] ['args' ['args' ...]]+
 
 Start hinting.
 
@@ -406,6 +407,8 @@ Start hinting.
  
 
 
+* +*-a*+, +*--add-history*+: Whether to add the spawned or yanked link to the browsing history.
+
 
 ==== note
 * This command does not split arguments after the last argument and handles quotes literally.
diff --git a/qutebrowser/browser/hints.py b/qutebrowser/browser/hints.py
index 4355df12e..b895c7db1 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/browser/hints.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/browser/hints.py
@@ -610,8 +610,8 @@ class HintManager(QObject):
             rapid: Whether to do rapid hinting. This is only possible with
                    targets `tab` (with background-tabs=true), `tab-bg`,
                    `window`, `run`, `hover`, `userscript` and `spawn`.
-            add_history: Whether to add spawned or yanked link to the
-                       browsing history.
+            add_history: Whether to add the spawned or yanked link to the
+                         browsing history.
             group: The element types to hint.
 
                 - `all`: All clickable elements.
diff --git a/scripts/dev/src2asciidoc.py b/scripts/dev/src2asciidoc.py
index 6a29c3410..2628ba282 100755
--- a/scripts/dev/src2asciidoc.py
+++ b/scripts/dev/src2asciidoc.py
@@ -432,6 +432,7 @@ def _get_authors():
         'Alexey Glushko': 'haitaka',
         'Corentin Jule': 'Corentin Julé',
         'Claire C.C': 'Claire Cavanaugh',
+        'Rahid': 'Maciej Wołczyk',
     }
     commits = subprocess.check_output(['git', 'log', '--format=%aN'])
     authors = [corrections.get(author, author)