doc/git-format-patch: link git-apply

From: Alexander Ziaee <[email protected]>

git formatted patches can be applied with git-apply(1), so link git-apply(1) in git-format-patch(1) § see also.

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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(-)

index 8708b315930..eeebc805d6c 100644
@@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ merge commit.
 
 SEE ALSO
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-linkgit:git-am[1], linkgit:git-send-email[1]
+linkgit:git-am[1], linkgit:git-apply[1], linkgit:git-send-email[1]
 
 GIT
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base-commit: 94b60adee30619a05296cf5ed6addb0e6d4e25dc

gitgitgadget

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.