[PATCH] Documentation: cite git-am from git-apply
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From: Brad King <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:14
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Users reading git-apply documentation may also be interested in git-am, especially after receiving an email created with git-format-patch. The documentation for git-am already references git-apply. Add the reverse. Signed-off-by: Brad King <redacted> --- Documentation/git-apply.txt | 10 ++++++++++ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
index 8463439..4a74b23 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ with the `--cache` option the patch is only applied to the index. Without these options, the command applies the patch only to files, and does not require them to be in a git repository. +This command applies the patch but does not create a commit. Use +linkgit:git-am[1] to create commits from patches generated by +linkgit:git-format-patch[1] and/or received by email. + OPTIONS ------- <patch>...::
@@ -242,6 +246,12 @@ If `--index` is not specified, then the submodule commits in the patch are ignored and only the absence or presence of the corresponding subdirectory is checked and (if possible) updated. + +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkgit:git-am[1]. + + Author ------ Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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