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diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index 326276e51c..900be198b1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--[no-]keep-cr] [--[no-]utf8]
+'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--[no-]keep-cr] [--[no-]utf8] [--no-verify]
[--[no-]3way] [--interactive] [--committer-date-is-author-date]
[--ignore-date] [--ignore-space-change | --ignore-whitespace]
[--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] [--directory=<dir>]
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ DESCRIPTION
-----------
Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message,
authorship information and patches, and applies them to the
-current branch.
+current branch. You could think of it as a reverse operation
+of linkgit:git-format-patch[1] run on a branch with a straight
+history without merges.
OPTIONS
-------
@@ -138,6 +140,12 @@ include::rerere-options.txt[]
--interactive::
Run interactively.
+-n::
+--no-verify::
+ By default, the pre-applypatch and applypatch-msg hooks are run.
+ When any of `--no-verify` or `-n` is given, these are bypassed.
+ See also linkgit:githooks[5].
+
--committer-date-is-author-date::
By default the command records the date from the e-mail
message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
@@ -267,7 +275,8 @@ include::config/am.txt[]
SEE ALSO
--------
-linkgit:git-apply[1].
+linkgit:git-apply[1],
+linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
GIT
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