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'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply] [--no-add] [--index-info] [--allow-binary-replacement] [-z] [<patch>...] 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15Reads supplied diff output and applies it on a git index file 16and a work tree. 17 18OPTIONS 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 93Author 94------ 95Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 96 97Documentation 98-------------- 99Documentation by Junio C Hamano 100 101GIT 102--- 103Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 104