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patchDocumentation: cite git-am from git-apply

Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: cite git-am from git-apply

## tl;dr

One message between Aug 3, 2010 and Aug 3, 2010. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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Brad King· Aug 3, 2010, 18:41 UTC · lore

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>
---
 Documentation/git-apply.txt |   10 ++++++++++
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
Show changes to Documentation/git-apply.txt +10 −0
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>
-- 
1.7.1

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