6 git-apply - Apply patch on a git index file and a work tree
11 'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply] [--no-add] [--index-info] [--allow-binary-replacement] [-z] [<patch>...]
15 Reads supplied diff output and applies it on a git index file
21 The files to read patch from. '-' can be used to read
22 from the standard input.
25 Instead of applying the patch, output diffstat for the
26 input. Turns off "apply".
29 Similar to \--stat, but shows number of added and
30 deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without
31 abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly. Turns
35 Instead of applying the patch, output a condensed
36 summary of information obtained from git diff extended
37 headers, such as creations, renames and mode changes.
41 Instead of applying the patch, see if the patch is
42 applicable to the current work tree and/or the index
43 file and detects errors. Turns off "apply".
46 When --check is in effect, or when applying the patch
47 (which is the default when none of the options that
48 disables it is in effect), make sure the patch is
49 applicable to what the current index file records. If
50 the file to be patched in the work tree is not
51 up-to-date, it is flagged as an error. This flag also
52 causes the index file to be updated.
55 Newer git-diff output has embedded 'index information'
56 for each blob to help identify the original version that
57 the patch applies to. When this flag is given, and if
58 the original version of the blob is available locally,
59 outputs information about them to the standard output.
62 When showing the index information, do not munge paths,
63 but use NUL terminated machine readable format. Without
64 this flag, the pathnames output will have TAB, LF, and
65 backslash characters replaced with `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`,
69 If you use any of the options marked ``Turns off
70 "apply"'' above, git-apply reads and outputs the
71 information you asked without actually applying the
72 patch. Give this flag after those flags to also apply
76 When applying a patch, ignore additions made by the
77 patch. This can be used to extract common part between
78 two files by first running `diff` on them and applying
79 the result with this option, which would apply the
80 deletion part but not addition part.
82 --allow-binary-replacement::
83 When applying a patch, which is a git-enhanced patch
84 that was prepared to record the pre- and post-image object
85 name in full, and the path being patched exactly matches
86 the object the patch applies to (i.e. "index" line's
87 pre-image object name is what is in the working tree),
88 and the post-image object is available in the object
89 database, use the post-image object as the patch
90 result. This allows binary files to be patched in a
95 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
99 Documentation by Junio C Hamano
103 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite