# [PATCH] Documentation: cite git-am from git-apply 1 messages from 2010-08-03 to 2010-08-03. Participants: Brad King. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/24621 ## Brad King, 2010-08-03 18:41 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: cite git-am from git-apply Message-ID: <1280860910-6867-1-git-send-email-brad.king@kitware.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1280860910-6867-1-git-send-email-brad.king%40kitware.com ``` 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 --- 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 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 ------- ...:: @@ -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 -- 1.7.1 ```