{"thread":{"id":"24621","subject":"[PATCH] Documentation: cite git-am from git-apply","startedAt":"2010-08-03T18:41:50Z","lastAt":"2010-08-03T18:41:50Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Brad King"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"147065","messageId":"1280860910-6867-1-git-send-email-brad.king@kitware.com","threadId":"24621","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH] Documentation: cite git-am from git-apply","fromName":"Brad King","fromEmail":"brad.king@kitware.com","sentAt":"2010-08-03T18:41:50Z","receivedAt":"2010-08-03T18:41:50Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"brad.king@kitware.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/87268?v=4"},"body":"Users reading git-apply documentation may also be interested in git-am,\nespecially after receiving an email created with git-format-patch.  The\ndocumentation for git-am already references git-apply.  Add the reverse.\n\nSigned-off-by: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>\n---\n Documentation/git-apply.txt |   10 ++++++++++\n 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)\n\ndiff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt\nindex 8463439..4a74b23 100644\n--- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt\n+++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt\n@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ with the `--cache` option the patch is only applied to the index.\n Without these options, the command applies the patch only to files,\n and does not require them to be in a git repository.\n \n+This command applies the patch but does not create a commit.  Use\n+linkgit:git-am[1] to create commits from patches generated by\n+linkgit:git-format-patch[1] and/or received by email.\n+\n OPTIONS\n -------\n <patch>...::\n@@ -242,6 +246,12 @@ If `--index` is not specified, then the submodule commits in the patch\n are ignored and only the absence or presence of the corresponding\n subdirectory is checked and (if possible) updated.\n \n+\n+SEE ALSO\n+--------\n+linkgit:git-am[1].\n+\n+\n Author\n ------\n Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>\n-- \n1.7.1\n"}]}