git-am support for naked email messages (take 2)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index e4df4a46ec0461e32865732a33057b284159f001..a415fe24c3dbf076145cfa44a0674875e3d2f49d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ git-am - Apply a series of patches in a mailbox
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-am' [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--utf8] [--3way] <mbox>...
-'git-am' [--skip]
+'git-am' [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--utf8] [--binary] [--3way] <mbox>...
+'git-am' [--skip | --resolved]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -28,9 +28,13 @@ OPTIONS
        area to store extracted patches.
 
 --utf8, --keep::
-       Pass `--utf8` and `--keep` flags to `git-mailinfo` (see
+       Pass `-u` and `-k` flags to `git-mailinfo` (see
        gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
 
+--binary::
+       Pass `--allow-binary-replacement` flag to `git-apply`
+       (see gitlink:git-apply[1]).
+
 --3way::
        When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
        3-way merge, if the patch records the identity of blobs
@@ -44,6 +48,13 @@ OPTIONS
 --interactive::
        Run interactively, just like git-applymbox.
 
+--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.
 
 DISCUSSION
 ----------
@@ -56,12 +67,9 @@ recover from this in one of two ways:
 . skip the current one 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,