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diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
index 996c3fcc6..e3d58cbac 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch>
+'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch>
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
 Reads a single e-mail message from the standard input, and
 writes the commit log message in <msg> file, and the patches in
 <patch> file.  The author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are
-written out to the standard output to be used by 'git-am'
+written out to the standard output to be used by 'git am'
 to create a commit.  It is usually not necessary to use this
 command directly.  See linkgit:git-am[1] instead.
 
@@ -30,7 +30,12 @@ OPTIONS
 	whitespaces, (3) '[' up to ']', typically '[PATCH]', and
 	then prepends "[PATCH] ".  This flag forbids this
 	munging, and is most useful when used to read back
-	'git-format-patch -k' output.
+	'git format-patch -k' output.
+
+-b::
+	When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with '['
+	and ']' pairs are stripped.  This option limits the stripping to
+	only the pairs whose bracketed string contains the word "PATCH".
 
 -u::
 	The commit log message, author name and author email are