NAME
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-git-apply - Apply patch on a git index file and a work tree
+git-apply - Apply a patch on a git index file and a working tree
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply]
- [--no-add] [--index-info] [--allow-binary-replacement | --binary]
- [-R | --reverse] [--reject] [-z] [-pNUM] [-CNUM] [--inaccurate-eof]
- [--whitespace=<nowarn|warn|error|error-all|strip>] [--exclude=PATH]
- [--cached] [--verbose] [<patch>...]
+'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index]
+ [--apply] [--no-add] [--index-info] [-R | --reverse]
+ [--allow-binary-replacement | --binary] [--reject] [-z]
+ [-pNUM] [-CNUM] [--inaccurate-eof] [--cached]
+ [--whitespace=<nowarn|warn|error|error-all|strip>]
+ [--exclude=PATH] [--verbose] [<patch>...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
correctly. This option adds support for applying such patches by
working around this bug.
---verbose::
+-v, --verbose::
Report progress to stderr. By default, only a message about the
current patch being applied will be printed. This option will cause
additional information to be reported.
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.
Author
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GIT
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Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-