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[verse]
'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index]
- [--apply] [--no-add] [--index-info] [-R | --reverse]
+ [--apply] [--no-add] [--build-fake-ancestor <file>] [-R | --reverse]
[--allow-binary-replacement | --binary] [--reject] [-z]
[-pNUM] [-CNUM] [--inaccurate-eof] [--cached]
- [--whitespace=<nowarn|warn|error|error-all|strip>]
+ [--whitespace=<nowarn|warn|fix|error|error-all>]
[--exclude=PATH] [--verbose] [<patch>...]
DESCRIPTION
cached data, apply the patch, and store the result in the index,
without using the working tree. This implies '--index'.
---index-info::
+--build-fake-ancestor <file>::
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.
+ the original versions of the blobs is available locally,
+ builds a temporary index containing those blobs.
++
+When a pure mode change is encountered (which has no index information),
+the information is read from the current index instead.
-R, --reverse::
Apply the patch in reverse.
--no-add::
When applying a patch, ignore additions made by the
- patch. This can be used to extract common part between
+ patch. This can be used to extract the 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.
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 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:
+--whitespace=<action>::
+ When applying a patch, detect a new or modified line that has
+ whitespace errors. What are considered whitespace errors is
+ controlled by `core.whitespace` configuration. By default,
+ trailing whitespaces (including lines that solely consist of
+ whitespaces) and a space character that is immediately followed
+ by a tab character inside the initial indent of the line are
+ considered whitespace errors.
++
+By default, the command outputs warning messages but applies the patch.
+When gitlink:git-apply[1] is used for statistics and not applying a
+patch, it defaults to `nowarn`.
++
+You can use different `<action>` to control this
+behavior:
+
* `nowarn` turns off the trailing whitespace warning.
* `warn` outputs warnings for a few such errors, but applies the
- patch (default).
+ patch as-is (default).
+* `fix` outputs warnings for a few such errors, and applies the
+ patch after fixing them (`strip` is a synonym --- the tool
+ used to consider only trailing whitespaces as errors, and the
+ fix involved 'stripping' them, but modern gits do more).
* `error` outputs warnings for a few such errors, and refuses
to apply the patch.
* `error-all` is similar to `error` but shows all errors.
-* `strip` outputs warnings for a few such errors, strips out the
- trailing whitespaces and applies the patch.
--inaccurate-eof::
Under certain circumstances, some versions of diff do not correctly
When no `--whitespace` flag is given from the command
line, this configuration item is used as the default.
+Submodules
+----------
+If the patch contains any changes to submodules then gitlink:git-apply[1]
+treats these changes as follows.
+
+If --index is specified (explicitly or implicitly), then the submodule
+commits must match the index exactly for the patch to apply. If any
+of the submodules are checked-out, then these check-outs are completely
+ignored, i.e., they are not required to be up-to-date or clean and they
+are not updated.
+
+If --index is not specified, then the submodule commits in the patch
+are ignored and only the absence of presence of the corresponding
+subdirectory is checked and (if possible) updated.
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