Both git am and git apply can be used to apply patches. I fail to see the difference. I see a difference now: git am automatically commits whereas git apply only touches the files but doesn't create a commit. Is that the only difference?
Git – the difference between git am and git apply
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Best Answer
Both the input and output are different:
git applytakes a patch (e.g. the output ofgit diff) and applies it to the working directory (or index, if--indexor--cachedis used).git amtakes a mailbox of commits formatted as an email messages (e.g. the output ofgit format-patch) and applies them to the current branch.git amusesgit applybehind the scenes, but does more work before (reading aMaildirormbox, and parsing email messages) and after (creating commits).