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@@ -768,7 +768,9 @@ git-am(1) Manual Page
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<div class="paragraph"><p>Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message,
authorship information and patches, and applies them to the
-current branch.</p></div>
+current branch. You could think of it as a reverse operation
+of <a href="git-format-patch.html">git-format-patch(1)</a> run on a branch with a straight
+history without merges.</p></div>
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@@ -1272,7 +1274,8 @@ am.threeWay
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<h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2>
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-<div class="paragraph"><p><a href="git-apply.html">git-apply(1)</a>.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p><a href="git-apply.html">git-apply(1)</a>,
+<a href="git-format-patch.html">git-format-patch(1)</a>.</p></div>
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@@ -1286,7 +1289,7 @@ am.threeWay
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Last updated
- 2023-01-16 13:16:56 PST
+ 2023-03-30 15:50:48 PDT
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