Documentation: cite git-am from git-apply
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 <brad.king@kitware.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Aug 3, 2010 at 14:41 UTC
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@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ with the `--cache` option the patch is only applied to the index.
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Without these options, the command applies the patch only to files,
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and does not require them to be in a git repository.
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+This command applies the patch but does not create a commit. Use
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+linkgit:git-am[1] to create commits from patches generated by
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+linkgit:git-format-patch[1] and/or received by email.
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OPTIONS
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<patch>...::
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are ignored and only the absence or presence of the corresponding
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subdirectory is checked and (if possible) updated.
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+SEE ALSO
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+--------
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+linkgit:git-am[1].
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Author
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>