Create a new manpage for the gitignore format, and reference it elsewhere

diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
index 33b93db508062529fe956b79e0618e67848b19de..3bd2c995da7d65977481837486dc15e5e96baf91 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
@@ -3,17 +3,18 @@ git-apply(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-apply - Apply patch on a git index file and a work tree
+git-apply - Apply a patch on a git index file and a working tree
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply]
-         [--no-add] [--index-info] [--allow-binary-replacement | --binary]
-         [-R | --reverse] [--reject] [-z] [-pNUM] [-CNUM] [--inaccurate-eof]
-         [--whitespace=<nowarn|warn|error|error-all|strip>] [--exclude=PATH]
-         [--cached] [--verbose] [<patch>...]
+'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index]
+         [--apply] [--no-add] [--index-info] [-R | --reverse]
+         [--allow-binary-replacement | --binary] [--reject] [-z]
+         [-pNUM] [-CNUM] [--inaccurate-eof] [--cached]
+         [--whitespace=<nowarn|warn|error|error-all|strip>]
+         [--exclude=PATH] [--verbose] [<patch>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -158,7 +159,7 @@ discouraged.
        correctly. This option adds support for applying such patches by
        working around this bug.
 
---verbose::
+-v, --verbose::
        Report progress to stderr. By default, only a message about the
        current patch being applied will be printed. This option will cause
        additional information to be reported.