Documentation/git-apply.txt

   1 git-apply(1)
   2 ============
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-apply - Apply patch on a git index file and a work tree
   7
   8
   9 SYNOPSIS
  10 --------
  11 'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply] [--no-add] [--index-info] [--allow-binary-replacement] [-z] [<patch>...]
  12
  13 DESCRIPTION
  14 -----------
  15 Reads supplied diff output and applies it on a git index file
  16 and a work tree.
  17
  18 OPTIONS
  19 -------
  20 <patch>...::
  21         The files to read patch from.  '-' can be used to read
  22         from the standard input.
  23
  24 --stat::
  25         Instead of applying the patch, output diffstat for the
  26         input.  Turns off "apply".
  27
  28 --numstat::
  29         Similar to \--stat, but shows number of added and
  30         deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without
  31         abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly.  Turns
  32         off "apply".
  33
  34 --summary::
  35         Instead of applying the patch, output a condensed
  36         summary of information obtained from git diff extended
  37         headers, such as creations, renames and mode changes.
  38         Turns off "apply".
  39
  40 --check::
  41         Instead of applying the patch, see if the patch is
  42         applicable to the current work tree and/or the index
  43         file and detects errors.  Turns off "apply".
  44
  45 --index::
  46         When --check is in effect, or when applying the patch
  47         (which is the default when none of the options that
  48         disables it is in effect), make sure the patch is
  49         applicable to what the current index file records.  If
  50         the file to be patched in the work tree is not
  51         up-to-date, it is flagged as an error.  This flag also
  52         causes the index file to be updated.
  53
  54 --index-info::
  55         Newer git-diff output has embedded 'index information'
  56         for each blob to help identify the original version that
  57         the patch applies to.  When this flag is given, and if
  58         the original version of the blob is available locally,
  59         outputs information about them to the standard output.
  60
  61 -z::
  62         When showing the index information, do not munge paths,
  63         but use NUL terminated machine readable format.  Without
  64         this flag, the pathnames output will have TAB, LF, and
  65         backslash characters replaced with `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`,
  66         respectively.
  67
  68 --apply::
  69         If you use any of the options marked ``Turns off
  70         "apply"'' above, git-apply reads and outputs the
  71         information you asked without actually applying the
  72         patch.  Give this flag after those flags to also apply
  73         the patch.
  74
  75 --no-add::
  76         When applying a patch, ignore additions made by the
  77         patch.  This can be used to extract common part between
  78         two files by first running `diff` on them and applying
  79         the result with this option, which would apply the
  80         deletion part but not addition part.
  81
  82 --allow-binary-replacement::
  83         When applying a patch, which is a git-enhanced patch
  84         that was prepared to record the pre- and post-image object
  85         name in full, and the path being patched exactly matches
  86         the object the patch applies to (i.e. "index" line's
  87         pre-image object name is what is in the working tree),
  88         and the post-image object is available in the object
  89         database, use the post-image object as the patch
  90         result.  This allows binary files to be patched in a
  91         very limited way.
  92
  93 Author
  94 ------
  95 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
  96
  97 Documentation
  98 --------------
  99 Documentation by Junio C Hamano
 100
 101 GIT
 102 ---
 103 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
 104