When a pure mode change is encountered (which has no index information),
the information is read from the current index instead.
--R, --reverse::
+-R::
+--reverse::
Apply the patch in reverse.
--reject::
- For atomicity, gitlink:git-apply[1] by default fails the whole patch and
+ For atomicity, linkgit:git-apply[1] by default fails the whole patch and
does not touch the working tree when some of the hunks
do not apply. This option makes it apply
the parts of the patch that are applicable, and leave the
ever ignored.
--unidiff-zero::
- By default, gitlink:git-apply[1] expects that the patch being
+ By default, linkgit:git-apply[1] expects that the patch being
applied is a unified diff with at least one line of context.
This provides good safety measures, but breaks down when
applying a diff generated with --unified=0. To bypass these
--apply::
If you use any of the options marked "Turns off
- 'apply'" above, gitlink:git-apply[1] reads and outputs the
+ 'apply'" above, linkgit:git-apply[1] reads and outputs the
information you asked without actually applying the
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
+ 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.
---allow-binary-replacement, --binary::
+--allow-binary-replacement::
+--binary::
Historically we did not allow binary patch applied
without an explicit permission from the user, and this
flag was the way to do so. Currently we always allow binary
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
+When linkgit:git-apply[1] is used for statistics and not applying a
patch, it defaults to `nowarn`.
+
You can use different `<action>` to control this
correctly. This option adds support for applying such patches by
working around this bug.
--v, --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.
Submodules
----------
-If the patch contains any changes to submodules then gitlink:git-apply[1]
+If the patch contains any changes to submodules then linkgit:git-apply[1]
treats these changes as follows.
If --index is specified (explicitly or implicitly), then the submodule
GIT
---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite