Merge branch 'maint'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
index 5088bbea84c0e6b681641b78b816755fa12f6b6d..64aa6a1ea6bca248e7078efcecb3d582cf8a0f5f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-mailinfo(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-mailinfo - Extracts patch from a single e-mail message
+git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ DESCRIPTION
 Reading a single e-mail message from the standard input, and
 writes the commit log message in <msg> file, and the patches in
 <patch> file.  The author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are
-written out to the standard output to be used by git-applypatch
+written out to the standard output to be used by git-am
 to create a commit.  It is usually not necessary to use this
-command directly.
+command directly.  See gitlink:git-am[1] instead.
 
 
 OPTIONS
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ OPTIONS
        whitespaces, (3) '[' up to ']', typically '[PATCH]', and
        then prepends "[PATCH] ".  This flag forbids this
        munging, and is most useful when used to read back 'git
-       format-patch --mbox' output.
+       format-patch -k' output.
 
 -u::
        The commit log message, author name and author email are
@@ -67,4 +67,3 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-