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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2010-08-03 14:41:50 -0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-08-09 09:15:41 -0700 |
| commit | 08b29826457ed84f02cce3d8e2a2d58e16064751 (patch) | |
| tree | 7993395ca0b6a727e988ce2e4fae962837ab9f27 /Documentation | |
| parent | 3c8710aeaa81a70ecad9facfc332d843ee37de35 (diff) | |
| download | git-08b29826457ed84f02cce3d8e2a2d58e16064751.tar.gz git-08b29826457ed84f02cce3d8e2a2d58e16064751.tar.xz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | 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 8463439ac..4a74b23d4 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> |