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diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index 53e81cb10..f0405a35e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -3,14 +3,15 @@ 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
 --------
 [verse]
 'git-am' [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--utf8 | --no-utf8] [--binary] [--3way]
-         [--interactive] [--whitespace=<option>] <mbox>...
+         [--interactive] [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>]
+	 <mbox>...
 'git-am' [--skip | --resolved]
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -21,18 +22,22 @@ current branch.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
---signoff::
+<mbox>...::
+	The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
+	supply this argument, reads from the standard input.
+
+-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.
 
---keep::
+-k, --keep::
 	Pass `-k` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
 
---utf8::
+-u, --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
@@ -43,14 +48,14 @@ 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
+	Pass `-n` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see
 	gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
 
---binary::
+-b, --binary::
 	Pass `--allow-binary-replacement` flag to `git-apply`
 	(see gitlink:git-apply[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
@@ -64,10 +69,14 @@ default.   You could use `--no-utf8` to override this.
 	This flag is passed to the `git-apply` program that applies
 	the patch.
 
---interactive::
+-C<n>, -p<n>::
+	These flags are passed to the `git-apply` program that applies
+	the patch.
+
+-i, --interactive::
 	Run interactively, just like git-applymbox.
 
---resolved::
+-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.
@@ -75,9 +84,43 @@ default.   You could use `--no-utf8` to override this.
 	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