1git-apply(1) 2============ 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-apply - Apply patch on a git index file and a work tree 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 12'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply] 13 [--no-add] [--index-info] [--allow-binary-replacement] [-z] 14 [<patch>...] 15 16DESCRIPTION 17----------- 18Reads supplied diff output and applies it on a git index file 19and a work tree. 20 21OPTIONS 22------- 23<patch>...:: 24 The files to read patch from. '-' can be used to read 25 from the standard input. 26 27--stat:: 28 Instead of applying the patch, output diffstat for the 29 input. Turns off "apply". 30 31--numstat:: 32 Similar to \--stat, but shows number of added and 33 deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without 34 abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly. Turns 35 off "apply". 36 37--summary:: 38 Instead of applying the patch, output a condensed 39 summary of information obtained from git diff extended 40 headers, such as creations, renames and mode changes. 41 Turns off "apply". 42 43--check:: 44 Instead of applying the patch, see if the patch is 45 applicable to the current work tree and/or the index 46 file and detects errors. Turns off "apply". 47 48--index:: 49 When --check is in effect, or when applying the patch 50 (which is the default when none of the options that 51 disables it is in effect), make sure the patch is 52 applicable to what the current index file records. If 53 the file to be patched in the work tree is not 54 up-to-date, it is flagged as an error. This flag also 55 causes the index file to be updated. 56 57--index-info:: 58 Newer git-diff output has embedded 'index information' 59 for each blob to help identify the original version that 60 the patch applies to. When this flag is given, and if 61 the original version of the blob is available locally, 62 outputs information about them to the standard output. 63 64-z:: 65 When showing the index information, do not munge paths, 66 but use NUL terminated machine readable format. Without 67 this flag, the pathnames output will have TAB, LF, and 68 backslash characters replaced with `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`, 69 respectively. 70 71--apply:: 72 If you use any of the options marked ``Turns off 73 "apply"'' above, git-apply reads and outputs the 74 information you asked without actually applying the 75 patch. Give this flag after those flags to also apply 76 the patch. 77 78--no-add:: 79 When applying a patch, ignore additions made by the 80 patch. This can be used to extract common part between 81 two files by first running `diff` on them and applying 82 the result with this option, which would apply the 83 deletion part but not addition part. 84 85--allow-binary-replacement:: 86 When applying a patch, which is a git-enhanced patch 87 that was prepared to record the pre- and post-image object 88 name in full, and the path being patched exactly matches 89 the object the patch applies to (i.e. "index" line's 90 pre-image object name is what is in the working tree), 91 and the post-image object is available in the object 92 database, use the post-image object as the patch 93 result. This allows binary files to be patched in a 94 very limited way. 95 96Author 97------ 98Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 99 100Documentation 101-------------- 102Documentation by Junio C Hamano 103 104GIT 105--- 106Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 107