6 git-apply - Apply a patch on a git index file and a working tree
12 'git apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index]
13 [--apply] [--no-add] [--build-fake-ancestor <file>] [-R | --reverse]
14 [--allow-binary-replacement | --binary] [--reject] [-z]
15 [-pNUM] [-CNUM] [--inaccurate-eof] [--recount] [--cached]
16 [--whitespace=<nowarn|warn|fix|error|error-all>]
17 [--exclude=PATH] [--directory=<root>] [--verbose] [<patch>...]
21 Reads supplied 'diff' output and applies it on a git index file
27 The files to read patch from. '-' can be used to read
28 from the standard input.
31 Instead of applying the patch, output diffstat for the
32 input. Turns off "apply".
35 Similar to \--stat, but shows number of added and
36 deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without
37 abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly. For
38 binary files, outputs two `-` instead of saying
39 `0 0`. Turns off "apply".
42 Instead of applying the patch, output a condensed
43 summary of information obtained from git diff extended
44 headers, such as creations, renames and mode changes.
48 Instead of applying the patch, see if the patch is
49 applicable to the current work tree and/or the index
50 file and detects errors. Turns off "apply".
53 When --check is in effect, or when applying the patch
54 (which is the default when none of the options that
55 disables it is in effect), make sure the patch is
56 applicable to what the current index file records. If
57 the file to be patched in the work tree is not
58 up-to-date, it is flagged as an error. This flag also
59 causes the index file to be updated.
62 Apply a patch without touching the working tree. Instead, take the
63 cached data, apply the patch, and store the result in the index,
64 without using the working tree. This implies '--index'.
66 --build-fake-ancestor <file>::
67 Newer 'git-diff' output has embedded 'index information'
68 for each blob to help identify the original version that
69 the patch applies to. When this flag is given, and if
70 the original versions of the blobs is available locally,
71 builds a temporary index containing those blobs.
73 When a pure mode change is encountered (which has no index information),
74 the information is read from the current index instead.
78 Apply the patch in reverse.
81 For atomicity, 'git-apply' by default fails the whole patch and
82 does not touch the working tree when some of the hunks
83 do not apply. This option makes it apply
84 the parts of the patch that are applicable, and leave the
85 rejected hunks in corresponding *.rej files.
88 When showing the index information, do not munge paths,
89 but use NUL terminated machine readable format. Without
90 this flag, the pathnames output will have TAB, LF, and
91 backslash characters replaced with `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`,
95 Remove <n> leading slashes from traditional diff paths. The
99 Ensure at least <n> lines of surrounding context match before
100 and after each change. When fewer lines of surrounding
101 context exist they all must match. By default no context is
105 By default, 'git-apply' expects that the patch being
106 applied is a unified diff with at least one line of context.
107 This provides good safety measures, but breaks down when
108 applying a diff generated with --unified=0. To bypass these
109 checks use '--unidiff-zero'.
111 Note, for the reasons stated above usage of context-free patches are
115 If you use any of the options marked "Turns off
116 'apply'" above, 'git-apply' reads and outputs the
117 information you asked without actually applying the
118 patch. Give this flag after those flags to also apply
122 When applying a patch, ignore additions made by the
123 patch. This can be used to extract the common part between
124 two files by first running 'diff' on them and applying
125 the result with this option, which would apply the
126 deletion part but not addition part.
128 --allow-binary-replacement::
130 Historically we did not allow binary patch applied
131 without an explicit permission from the user, and this
132 flag was the way to do so. Currently we always allow binary
133 patch application, so this is a no-op.
135 --exclude=<path-pattern>::
136 Don't apply changes to files matching the given path pattern. This can
137 be useful when importing patchsets, where you want to exclude certain
138 files or directories.
140 --whitespace=<action>::
141 When applying a patch, detect a new or modified line that has
142 whitespace errors. What are considered whitespace errors is
143 controlled by `core.whitespace` configuration. By default,
144 trailing whitespaces (including lines that solely consist of
145 whitespaces) and a space character that is immediately followed
146 by a tab character inside the initial indent of the line are
147 considered whitespace errors.
149 By default, the command outputs warning messages but applies the patch.
150 When `git-apply` is used for statistics and not applying a
151 patch, it defaults to `nowarn`.
153 You can use different `<action>` to control this
156 * `nowarn` turns off the trailing whitespace warning.
157 * `warn` outputs warnings for a few such errors, but applies the
158 patch as-is (default).
159 * `fix` outputs warnings for a few such errors, and applies the
160 patch after fixing them (`strip` is a synonym --- the tool
161 used to consider only trailing whitespaces as errors, and the
162 fix involved 'stripping' them, but modern gits do more).
163 * `error` outputs warnings for a few such errors, and refuses
165 * `error-all` is similar to `error` but shows all errors.
168 Under certain circumstances, some versions of 'diff' do not correctly
169 detect a missing new-line at the end of the file. As a result, patches
170 created by such 'diff' programs do not record incomplete lines
171 correctly. This option adds support for applying such patches by
172 working around this bug.
176 Report progress to stderr. By default, only a message about the
177 current patch being applied will be printed. This option will cause
178 additional information to be reported.
181 Do not trust the line counts in the hunk headers, but infer them
182 by inspecting the patch (e.g. after editing the patch without
183 adjusting the hunk headers appropriately).
186 Prepend <root> to all filenames. If a "-p" argument was passed, too,
187 it is applied before prepending the new root.
189 For example, a patch that talks about updating `a/git-gui.sh` to `b/git-gui.sh`
190 can be applied to the file in the working tree `modules/git-gui/git-gui.sh` by
191 running `git apply --directory=modules/git-gui`.
197 When no `--whitespace` flag is given from the command
198 line, this configuration item is used as the default.
202 If the patch contains any changes to submodules then 'git-apply'
203 treats these changes as follows.
205 If --index is specified (explicitly or implicitly), then the submodule
206 commits must match the index exactly for the patch to apply. If any
207 of the submodules are checked-out, then these check-outs are completely
208 ignored, i.e., they are not required to be up-to-date or clean and they
211 If --index is not specified, then the submodule commits in the patch
212 are ignored and only the absence of presence of the corresponding
213 subdirectory is checked and (if possible) updated.
217 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
221 Documentation by Junio C Hamano
225 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite