git merge documentation: -m is optional

diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index 1ceed112f218a3cecc7a5f9be98bd9611f7267dd..4fb1d844133ba8350361ee67d074935805a24156 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -3,12 +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
 --------
-'git-am' [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--utf8] [--binary] [--3way] <mbox>...
+[verse]
+'git-am' [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--utf8 | --no-utf8] [--binary] [--3way]
+         [--interactive] [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>]
+        <mbox>...
 'git-am' [--skip | --resolved]
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -19,6 +22,10 @@ current branch.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
+<mbox>...::
+       The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
+       supply this argument, reads from the standard input.
+
 --signoff::
        Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
        the committer identity of yourself.
@@ -27,8 +34,21 @@ OPTIONS
        Instead of `.dotest` directory, use <dir> as a working
        area to store extracted patches.
 
---utf8, --keep::
-       Pass `--utf8` and `--keep` flags to `git-mailinfo` (see
+--keep::
+       Pass `-k` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
+
+--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
+       `i18n.commitencoding` can be used to specify project's
+       preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
++
+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
        gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
 
 --binary::
@@ -45,6 +65,14 @@ OPTIONS
        Skip the current patch.  This is only meaningful when
        restarting an aborted patch.
 
+--whitespace=<option>::
+       This flag is passed to the `git-apply` program that applies
+       the patch.
+
+-C<n>, -p<n>::
+       These flag are passed to the `git-apply` program that applies
+       the patch.
+
 --interactive::
        Run interactively, just like git-applymbox.
 
@@ -69,7 +97,7 @@ recover from this in one of two ways:
 
 . 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 '--resume' option.
+  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,
@@ -79,7 +107,7 @@ names.
 
 SEE ALSO
 --------
-gitlink:git-applymbox[1], gitlink:git-applypatch[1].
+gitlink:git-applymbox[1], gitlink:git-applypatch[1], gitlink:git-apply[1].
 
 
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