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diff --git a/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt b/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt
index 3d813ec4c..3bc92d8cf 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-applymbox - Apply a series of patches in a mailbox
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-applymbox' [-u] [-k] [-q] ( -c .dotest/<num> | <mbox> ) [ <signoff> ]
+'git-applymbox' [-u] [-k] [-q] [-m] ( -c .dotest/<num> | <mbox> ) [ <signoff> ]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ OPTIONS
 -q::
 	Apply patches interactively.  The user will be given
 	opportunity to edit the log message and the patch before
-	attempting to apply patch in each e-mail message.
+	attempting to apply it.
 
 -k::
 	Usually the program 'cleans up' the Subject: header line
@@ -33,14 +33,28 @@ OPTIONS
 	munging, and is most useful when used to read back 'git
 	format-patch --mbox' output.
 
+-m::
+	Patches are applied with `git-apply` command, and unless
+	it cleanly applies without fuzz, the processing fails.
+	With this flag, if a tree that the patch applies cleanly
+	is found in a repository, the patch is applied to the
+	tree and then a 3-way merge between the resulting tree
+	and the current tree.
+
 -u::
-	By default, the commit log message, author name and
-	author email are taken from the e-mail without any
-	charset conversion, after minimally decoding MIME
-	transfer encoding.  This flag causes the resulting
-	commit to be encoded in utf-8 by transliterating them.
-	Note that the patch is always used as is without charset
-	conversion, even with this flag.
+	Pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
+	The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
+	are re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
+	`i18n.commitencoding` can be used to specify project's
+	preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).  This used to be
+	optional but now it is the default.
++
+Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset
+conversion, even with this flag.
+
+-n::
+	Pass `-n` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see
+	gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
 
 -c .dotest/<num>::
 	When the patch contained in an e-mail does not cleanly
@@ -64,6 +78,12 @@ OPTIONS
 	generated "Signed-off-by" line based on your committer
 	identity.
 
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+gitlink:git-am[1], gitlink:git-applypatch[1].
+
+
 Author
 ------
 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
@@ -74,5 +94,5 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite