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diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index 148ce4056..f78e5dc28 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -9,9 +9,10 @@ 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>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>]
-	 <mbox>...
+'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
@@ -22,25 +23,26 @@ current branch.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
-<mbox>...::
+<mbox>|<Maildir>...::
 	The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
-	supply this argument, reads from the standard input.
+	supply this argument, reads from the standard input. If you supply
+	directories, they'll be treated as Maildirs.
 
---signoff::
+-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
+	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).
 +
@@ -48,35 +50,37 @@ 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::
-	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
-	locally.
+	available locally.
 
---skip::
-	Skip the current patch.  This is only meaningful when
-	restarting an aborted patch.
+-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` program that applies
+	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` program that applies
+	These flags are passed to the `git-apply` (see gitlink:git-apply[1])
+	program that applies
 	the patch.
 
---interactive::
-	Run interactively, just like git-applymbox.
+-i, --interactive::
+	Run interactively.
+
+--skip::
+	Skip the current patch.  This is only meaningful when
+	restarting an aborted patch.
 
---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.
@@ -84,6 +88,13 @@ 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
 ----------
 
@@ -119,7 +130,7 @@ 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:
 
-. 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, and update