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diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index e4df4a46e..53e81cb10 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ git-am - Apply a series of patches in a mailbox
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-am' [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--utf8] [--3way] <mbox>...
-'git-am' [--skip]
+[verse]
+'git-am' [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--utf8 | --no-utf8] [--binary] [--3way]
+         [--interactive] [--whitespace=<option>] <mbox>...
+'git-am' [--skip | --resolved]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -27,10 +29,27 @@ OPTIONS
 	Instead of `.dotest` directory, use <dir> as a working
 	area to store extracted patches.
 
---utf8, --keep::
-	Pass `--utf8` and `--keep` flags to `git-mailinfo` (see
+--keep::
+	Pass `-k` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
+
+--utf8::
+	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 was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
+default.   You could use `--no-utf8` to override this.
+
+--no-utf8::
+	Do not pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see
 	gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
 
+--binary::
+	Pass `--allow-binary-replacement` flag to `git-apply`
+	(see gitlink:git-apply[1]).
+
 --3way::
 	When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
 	3-way merge, if the patch records the identity of blobs
@@ -41,9 +60,20 @@ OPTIONS
 	Skip the current patch.  This is only meaningful when
 	restarting an aborted patch.
 
+--whitespace=<option>::
+	This flag is passed to the `git-apply` program that applies
+	the patch.
+
 --interactive::
 	Run interactively, just like git-applymbox.
 
+--resolved::
+	After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
+	conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
+	the index file stores the result of the application.
+	Make a commit using the authorship and commit log
+	extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
+	file, and continue.
 
 DISCUSSION
 ----------
@@ -56,12 +86,9 @@ recover from this in one of two ways:
 . skip the current one by re-running the command with '--skip'
   option.
 
-. hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, run 'git
-  diff HEAD' to extract the merge result into a patch form and
-  replacing the patch in .dotest/patch file.  After doing this,
-  run `git-reset --hard HEAD` to bring the working tree to the
-  state before half-applying the patch, then re-run the command
-  without any options.
+. hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
+  the index file to bring it in a state that the patch should
+  have produced.  Then run the command with '--resolved' option.
 
 The command refuses to process new mailboxes while `.dotest`
 directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
@@ -71,7 +98,7 @@ names.
 
 SEE ALSO
 --------
-gitlink:git-applymbox[1], gitlink:git-applypatch[1].
+gitlink:git-applymbox[1], gitlink:git-applypatch[1], gitlink:git-apply[1].
 
 
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