Merge branch 'maint'

[git.git] / Documentation / git-am.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index 9e62f8778f6590328de4d9c0c7c08044e8019eac..6b1b5af64e2daec1ecc8ee832f58f5186d740a79 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
         [--ignore-date] [--ignore-space-change | --ignore-whitespace]
         [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] [--directory=<dir>]
         [--reject] [-q | --quiet] [--scissors | --no-scissors]
-        [<mbox> | <Maildir>...]
+        [(<mbox> | <Maildir>)...]
 'git am' (--continue | --skip | --abort)
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ current branch.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
-<mbox>|<Maildir>...::
+(<mbox>|<Maildir>)...::
        The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
        supply this argument, the command reads from the standard input.
        If you supply directories, they will be treated as Maildirs.
@@ -173,9 +173,9 @@ aborts in the middle.  You can recover from this in one of two ways:
   the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should
   have produced.  Then run the command with the '--resolved' option.
 
-The command refuses to process new mailboxes while the `.git/rebase-apply`
-directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
-run `rm -f -r .git/rebase-apply` before running the command with mailbox
+The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current
+operation is finished, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
+run `git am --abort` before running the command with mailbox
 names.
 
 Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the
@@ -189,15 +189,6 @@ SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-apply[1].
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite