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diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt index 2ff74949a7..20e12ceda0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt @@ -10,9 +10,10 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply] - [--no-add] [--index-info] [--allow-binary-replacement] [-z] [-pNUM] - [-CNUM] [--whitespace=<nowarn|warn|error|error-all|strip>] - [<patch>...] + [--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>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -55,6 +56,11 @@ OPTIONS up-to-date, it is flagged as an error. This flag also causes the index file to be updated. +--cached:: + Apply a patch without touching the working tree. Instead, take the + cached data, apply the patch, and store the result in the index, + without using the working tree. This implies '--index'. + --index-info:: Newer git-diff output has embedded 'index information' for each blob to help identify the original version that @@ -62,6 +68,16 @@ OPTIONS the original version of the blob is available locally, outputs information about them to the standard output. +-R, --reverse:: + Apply the patch in reverse. + +--reject:: + For atomicity, gitlink:git-apply[1] by default fails the whole patch and + does not touch the working tree when some of the hunks + do not apply. This option makes it apply + the parts of the patch that are applicable, and send the + rejected hunks to the standard output of the command. + -z:: When showing the index information, do not munge paths, but use NUL terminated machine readable format. Without @@ -80,8 +96,8 @@ OPTIONS ever ignored. --apply:: - If you use any of the options marked ``Turns off - "apply"'' above, git-apply reads and outputs the + If you use any of the options marked "Turns off + 'apply'" above, gitlink:git-apply[1] reads and outputs the information you asked without actually applying the patch. Give this flag after those flags to also apply the patch. @@ -93,7 +109,7 @@ OPTIONS the result with this option, which would apply the deletion part but not addition part. ---allow-binary-replacement:: +--allow-binary-replacement, --binary:: When applying a patch, which is a git-enhanced patch that was prepared to record the pre- and post-image object name in full, and the path being patched exactly matches @@ -104,13 +120,18 @@ OPTIONS result. This allows binary files to be patched in a very limited way. +--exclude=<path-pattern>:: + Don't apply changes to files matching the given path pattern. This can + be useful when importing patchsets, where you want to exclude certain + files or directories. + --whitespace=<option>:: When applying a patch, detect a new or modified line that ends with trailing whitespaces (this includes a line that solely consists of whitespaces). By default, the command outputs warning messages and applies the patch. - When `git-apply` is used for statistics and not applying a + When gitlink:git-apply[1] is used for statistics and not applying a patch, it defaults to `nowarn`. You can use different `<option>` to control this behavior: @@ -124,6 +145,17 @@ OPTIONS * `strip` outputs warnings for a few such errors, strips out the trailing whitespaces and applies the patch. +--inacurate-eof:: + Under certain circumstances, some versions of diff do not correctly + detect a missing new-line at the end of the file. As a result, patches + created by such diff programs do not record incomplete lines + correctly. This option adds support for applying such patches by + working around this bug. + +--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. Configuration ------------- |