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diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index 704dc514d..e4a6b3a6f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -3,13 +3,17 @@ git-am(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-am - Apply a series of patches in a mailbox
+git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-am' [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--utf8] [--3way] <mbox>...
-'git-am' [--skip]
+[verse]
+'git-am' [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--keep] [--utf8 | --no-utf8]
+         [--3way] [--interactive] [--binary]
+         [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>]
+         <mbox>|<Maildir>...
+'git-am' [--skip | --resolved]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -19,49 +23,118 @@ current branch.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
---signoff::
+<mbox>|<Maildir>...::
+	The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
+	supply this argument, reads from the standard input. If you supply
+	directories, they'll be treated as Maildirs.
+
+-s, --signoff::
 	Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
 	the committer identity of yourself.
 
---dotest=<dir>::
+-d=<dir>, --dotest=<dir>::
 	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
+-k, --keep::
+	Pass `-k` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
+
+-u, --utf8::
+	Pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
+	The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
+	is 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::
+	Pass `-n` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see
 	gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
 
---3way::
+-3, --3way::
 	When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
 	3-way merge, if the patch records the identity of blobs
 	it is supposed to apply to, and we have those blobs
-	locally.
+	available locally.
+
+-b, --binary::
+	Pass `--allow-binary-replacement` flag to `git-apply`
+	(see gitlink:git-apply[1]).
+
+--whitespace=<option>::
+	This flag is passed to the `git-apply` (see gitlink:git-apply[1])
+	program that applies
+	the patch.
+
+-C<n>, -p<n>::
+	These flags are passed to the `git-apply` (see gitlink:git-apply[1])
+	program that applies
+	the patch.
+
+-i, --interactive::
+	Run interactively.
 
 --skip::
 	Skip the current patch.  This is only meaningful when
 	restarting an aborted patch.
 
---interactive::
-	Run interactively, just like git-applymbox.
-
+-r, --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.
+
+--resolvemsg=<msg>::
+	When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed
+	to the screen before exiting.  This overrides the
+	standard message informing you to use `--resolved`
+	or `--skip` to handle the failure.  This is solely
+	for internal use between `git-rebase` and `git-am`.
 
 DISCUSSION
 ----------
 
+The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
+message, and commit author time is taken from the "Date: " line
+of the message.  The "Subject: " line is used as the title of
+the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
+It is supposed to describe what the commit is about concisely as
+a one line text.
+
+The body of the message (iow, after a blank line that terminates
+RFC2822 headers) can begin with "Subject: " and "From: " lines
+that are different from those of the mail header, to override
+the values of these fields.
+
+The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
+"Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
+where the patch begins.  Excess whitespaces at the end of the
+lines are automatically stripped.
+
+The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
+message.  Any line that is of form:
+
+* three-dashes and end-of-line, or
+* a line that begins with "diff -", or
+* a line that begins with "Index: "
+
+is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
+is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.
+
 When initially invoking it, you give it names of the mailboxes
 to crunch.  Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
-aborts in the middle, just like 'git-applymbox' does.  You can
-recover from this in one of two ways:
+aborts in the middle,.  You can recover from this in one of two ways:
 
-. skip the current one by re-running the command with '--skip'
+. skip the current patch 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 +144,7 @@ names.
 
 SEE ALSO
 --------
-gitlink:git-applymbox[1], gitlink:git-applypatch[1].
+gitlink:git-apply[1].
 
 
 Author
@@ -82,9 +155,6 @@ Documentation
 --------------
 Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 
-This manual page is a stub. You can help the git documentation by expanding it.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-