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diff --git a/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt b/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt
index bb543788c0..f74c6a49b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-applymbox - Apply a series of patches in a mailbox
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-applymbox' [-u] [-k] [-q] ( -c .dotest/<num> | <mbox> ) [ <signoff> ]
+'git-applymbox' [-u] [-k] [-q] [-m] ( -c .dotest/<num> | <mbox> ) [ <signoff> ]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ OPTIONS
munging, and is most useful when used to read back 'git
format-patch --mbox' output.
+-m::
+ Patches are applied with `git-apply` command, and unless
+ it cleanly applies without fuzz, the processing fails.
+ With this flag, if a tree that the patch applies cleanly
+ is found in a repository, the patch is applied to the
+ tree and then a 3-way merge between the resulting tree
+ and the current tree.
+
-u::
By default, the commit log message, author name and
author email are taken from the e-mail without any
@@ -67,7 +75,7 @@ OPTIONS
SEE ALSO
--------
-gitlink:git-applypatch[1].
+gitlink:git-am[1], gitlink:git-applypatch[1].
Author