"Alexander Ziaee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > From: Alexander Ziaee <ziaee@xxxxxxxxxx> > > git formatted patches can be applied with git-apply(1), Not necessarily. They are meant to be consumed via "am", which knows how to unwrap MIME, split the message into the log part and the diff part, and create a commit out of the result, by calling "mailinfo", "apply" and "comimt-tree" as the underlying mechanism. Simple patches can often be consumed by "apply", but that is not guaranteed. To put it another way, if we link "apply" because format-patch output can (sometimes) be consumed with the command in order to use its the diff part, we would need to link "mailinfo" because the format-patch output can (always) be consumed with the command in order to extract the log message part and separate the diff part out. So I am modereately negative on this change, especially we already refer readers to "am" (and "am" in turn refers to "apply"). Thanks. > so link git-apply(1) in git-format-patch(1) § see also. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Ziaee <ziaee@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > doc/git-format-patch: link git-apply > > Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-1785%2Fconcussious%2Fmaster-v1 > Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1785/concussious/master-v1 > Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1785 > > Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt > index 8708b315930..eeebc805d6c 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt > @@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ merge commit. > > SEE ALSO > -------- > -linkgit:git-am[1], linkgit:git-send-email[1] > +linkgit:git-am[1], linkgit:git-apply[1], linkgit:git-send-email[1] > > GIT > --- > > base-commit: 94b60adee30619a05296cf5ed6addb0e6d4e25dc
