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authorJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2007-01-17 13:03:29 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2007-01-17 13:03:29 -0800
commit5cb545fa22fa590617c872e47568279218788d4b (patch)
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Documentation: suggest corresponding Porcelain-level in plumbing docs.
Instead of keeping the confused end user reading low-level documentation, suggest the higher level commands that implement what the user may want to do using them upfront. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-applypatch.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-send-pack.txt3
5 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-applypatch.txt b/Documentation/git-applypatch.txt
index 2b1ff1454..451434a75 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-applypatch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-applypatch.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
+This is usually not what an end user wants to run directly. See
+gitlink:git-am[1] instead.
+
Takes three files <msg>, <patch>, and <info> prepared from an
e-mail message by 'git-mailinfo', and creates a commit. It is
usually not necessary to use this command directly.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index 77ba96ed8..f5d8050c9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
+This is usually not what an end user wants to run directly. See
+gitlink:git-commit[1] instead.
+
Creates a new commit object based on the provided tree object and
emits the new commit object id on stdout. If no parent is given then
it is considered to be an initial tree.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt
index 3e6cd880b..90ef127d1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
+Usually you would want to use gitlink:git-fetch[1] which is a
+higher level wrapper of this command instead.
+
Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a potentially remote repository,
and asks it to send objects missing from this repository, to
update the named heads. The list of commits available locally
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
index 5088bbea8..1ff6e7d6c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ writes the commit log message in <msg> file, and the patches in
<patch> file. The author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are
written out to the standard output to be used by git-applypatch
to create a commit. It is usually not necessary to use this
-command directly.
+command directly. See gitlink:git-am[1] instead.
OPTIONS
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
index 5376f6854..88f4e394e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
+Usually you would want to use gitlink:git-push[1] which is a
+higher level wrapper of this command instead.
+
Invokes 'git-receive-pack' on a possibly remote repository, and
updates it from the current repository, sending named refs.