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Instead of keeping the confused end user reading low-level documentation, suggest the higher level commands that implement what the user may want to do using them upfront. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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git-applypatch(1)
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NAME
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git-applypatch - Apply one patch extracted from an e-mail
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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'git-applypatch' <msg> <patch> <info> [<signoff>]
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DESCRIPTION
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-----------
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This is usually not what an end user wants to run directly. See
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gitlink:git-am[1] instead.
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Takes three files <msg>, <patch>, and <info> prepared from an
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e-mail message by 'git-mailinfo', and creates a commit. It is
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usually not necessary to use this command directly.
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This command can run `applypatch-msg`, `pre-applypatch`, and
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`post-applypatch` hooks. See link:hooks.html[hooks] for more
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information.
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OPTIONS
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-------
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<msg>::
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Commit log message (sans the first line, which comes
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from e-mail Subject stored in <info>).
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<patch>::
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The patch to apply.
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<info>::
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Author and subject information extracted from e-mail,
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used on "author" line and as the first line of the
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commit log message.
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Author
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Documentation
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Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
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GIT
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---
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Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
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