git-apply(1)
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-v0.1, June 2005
NAME
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-git-apply - Apply patch on a GIT index file and a work tree
+git-apply - Apply patch on a git index file and a work tree
SYNOPSIS
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-'git-apply' [--
no-merge] [--stat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--show-files] [--apply] [<patch>...]
+'git-apply' [--
stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply] [--no-add] [--index-info] [--allow-binary-replacement] [-z] [<patch>...]
DESCRIPTION
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-Reads supplied diff output and applies it on a GIT index file
+Reads supplied diff output and applies it on a git index file
and a work tree.
OPTIONS
The files to read patch from. '-' can be used to read
from the standard input.
---no-merge::
- The default mode of operation is the merge behaviour
- which is not implemented yet. This flag explicitly
- tells the program not to use the merge behaviour.
-
--stat::
Instead of applying the patch, output diffstat for the
input. Turns off "apply".
+--numstat::
+ Similar to \--stat, but shows number of added and
+ deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without
+ abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly. Turns
+ off "apply".
+
--summary::
Instead of applying the patch, output a condensed
summary of information obtained from git diff extended
up-to-date, it is flagged as an error. This flag also
causes the index file to be updated.
---show-files::
- Show summary of files that are affected by the patch.
+--index-info::
+ Newer git-diff output has embedded 'index information'
+ for each blob to help identify the original version that
+ the patch applies to. When this flag is given, and if
+ the original version of the blob is available locally,
+ outputs information about them to the standard output.
+
+-z::
+ When showing the index information, do not munge paths,
+ but use NUL terminated machine readable format. Without
+ this flag, the pathnames output will have TAB, LF, and
+ backslash characters replaced with `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`,
+ respectively.
--apply::
If you use any of the options marked ``Turns off
patch. Give this flag after those flags to also apply
the patch.
+--no-add::
+ When applying a patch, ignore additions made by the
+ patch. This can be used to extract common part between
+ two files by first running `diff` on them and applying
+ the result with this option, which would apply the
+ deletion part but not addition part.
+
+--allow-binary-replacement::
+ 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
+ the object the patch applies to (i.e. "index" line's
+ pre-image object name is what is in the working tree),
+ and the post-image object is available in the object
+ database, use the post-image object as the patch
+ result. This allows binary files to be patched in a
+ very limited way.
Author
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