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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-03-30 23:47:12 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-03-30 23:47:12 +0300 |
| commit | a15b8451f2451fd212e0929b1bacb34de28cdc46 (patch) | |
| tree | 67ea6cfbb388b167bb5ec3b926de3de766de12f7 /Documentation | |
| parent | 5f6f7a48dae3b5bc5b60a4621bb51a83d4dd1341 (diff) | |
| parent | 9b0c7f308a9a101deea3ddb359d1505d18f3cdba (diff) | |
Merge branch 'jc/am-doc-refer-to-format-patch'
Doc update.
* jc/am-doc-refer-to-format-patch:
am: refer to format-patch in the documentation
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-am.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index 0c1dfb3c98..900be198b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message, authorship information and patches, and applies them to the -current branch. +current branch. You could think of it as a reverse operation +of linkgit:git-format-patch[1] run on a branch with a straight +history without merges. OPTIONS ------- @@ -273,7 +275,8 @@ include::config/am.txt[] SEE ALSO -------- -linkgit:git-apply[1]. +linkgit:git-apply[1], +linkgit:git-format-patch[1]. GIT --- |