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diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
index 9cc7c74de..20e12ceda 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
@@ -10,9 +10,10 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply]
-	  [--no-add] [--index-info] [--allow-binary-replacement] [-z] [-pNUM]
-	  [-CNUM] [--whitespace=<nowarn|warn|error|error-all|strip>]
-	  [<patch>...]
+	  [--no-add] [--index-info] [--allow-binary-replacement | --binary]
+	  [-R | --reverse] [--reject] [-z] [-pNUM] [-CNUM] [--inaccurate-eof]
+	  [--whitespace=<nowarn|warn|error|error-all|strip>] [--exclude=PATH]
+	  [--cached] [--verbose] [<patch>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -55,6 +56,11 @@ OPTIONS
 	up-to-date, it is flagged as an error.  This flag also
 	causes the index file to be updated.
 
+--cached::
+	Apply a patch without touching the working tree. Instead, take the
+	cached data, apply the patch, and store the result in the index,
+	without using the working tree. This implies '--index'.
+
 --index-info::
 	Newer git-diff output has embedded 'index information'
 	for each blob to help identify the original version that
@@ -62,6 +68,16 @@ OPTIONS
 	the original version of the blob is available locally,
 	outputs information about them to the standard output.
 
+-R, --reverse::
+	Apply the patch in reverse.
+
+--reject::
+	For atomicity, gitlink:git-apply[1] by default fails the whole patch and
+	does not touch the working tree when some of the hunks
+	do not apply.  This option makes it apply
+	the parts of the patch that are applicable, and send the
+	rejected hunks to the standard output of the command.
+
 -z::
 	When showing the index information, do not munge paths,
 	but use NUL terminated machine readable format.  Without
@@ -76,12 +92,12 @@ OPTIONS
 -C<n>::
 	Ensure at least <n> lines of surrounding context match before
 	and after each change.  When fewer lines of surrounding
-	context exist they all most match.  By default no context is
+	context exist they all must match.  By default no context is
 	ever ignored.
 
 --apply::
-	If you use any of the options marked ``Turns off
-	"apply"'' above, git-apply reads and outputs the
+	If you use any of the options marked "Turns off
+	'apply'" above, gitlink:git-apply[1] reads and outputs the
 	information you asked without actually applying the
 	patch.  Give this flag after those flags to also apply
 	the patch.
@@ -93,7 +109,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	the result with this option, which would apply the
 	deletion part but not addition part.
 
---allow-binary-replacement::
+--allow-binary-replacement, --binary::
 	When applying a patch, which is a git-enhanced patch
 	that was prepared to record the pre- and post-image object
 	name in full, and the path being patched exactly matches
@@ -104,13 +120,18 @@ OPTIONS
 	result.  This allows binary files to be patched in a
 	very limited way.
 
+--exclude=<path-pattern>::
+	Don't apply changes to files matching the given path pattern. This can
+	be useful when importing patchsets, where you want to exclude certain
+	files or directories.
+
 --whitespace=<option>::
 	When applying a patch, detect a new or modified line
 	that ends with trailing whitespaces (this includes a
 	line that solely consists of whitespaces).  By default,
 	the command outputs warning messages and applies the
 	patch.
-	When `git-apply` is used for statistics and not applying a
+	When gitlink:git-apply[1] is used for statistics and not applying a
 	patch, it defaults to `nowarn`.
 	You can use different `<option>` to control this
 	behavior:
@@ -124,6 +145,17 @@ OPTIONS
 * `strip` outputs warnings for a few such errors, strips out the
   trailing whitespaces and applies the patch.
 
+--inacurate-eof::
+	Under certain circumstances, some versions of diff do not correctly
+	detect a missing new-line at the end of the file. As a result, patches
+	created by such diff programs do not record incomplete lines
+	correctly. This option adds support for applying such patches by
+	working around this bug.
+
+--verbose::
+	Report progress to stderr. By default, only a message about the
+	current patch being applied will be printed. This option will cause
+	additional information to be reported.
 
 Configuration
 -------------