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] [--include=PATH] [--directory=<root>]
18 [--verbose] [<patch>...]
22 Reads supplied 'diff' output and applies it on a git index file
28 The files to read patch from. '-' can be used to read
29 from the standard input.
32 Instead of applying the patch, output diffstat for the
33 input. Turns off "apply".
36 Similar to \--stat, but shows number of added and
37 deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without
38 abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly. For
39 binary files, outputs two `-` instead of saying
40 `0 0`. Turns off "apply".
43 Instead of applying the patch, output a condensed
44 summary of information obtained from git diff extended
45 headers, such as creations, renames and mode changes.
49 Instead of applying the patch, see if the patch is
50 applicable to the current work tree and/or the index
51 file and detects errors. Turns off "apply".
54 When --check is in effect, or when applying the patch
55 (which is the default when none of the options that
56 disables it is in effect), make sure the patch is
57 applicable to what the current index file records. If
58 the file to be patched in the work tree is not
59 up-to-date, it is flagged as an error. This flag also
60 causes the index file to be updated.
63 Apply a patch without touching the working tree. Instead, take the
64 cached data, apply the patch, and store the result in the index,
65 without using the working tree. This implies '--index'.
67 --build-fake-ancestor <file>::
68 Newer 'git-diff' output has embedded 'index information'
69 for each blob to help identify the original version that
70 the patch applies to. When this flag is given, and if
71 the original versions of the blobs is available locally,
72 builds a temporary index containing those blobs.
74 When a pure mode change is encountered (which has no index information),
75 the information is read from the current index instead.
79 Apply the patch in reverse.
82 For atomicity, 'git-apply' by default fails the whole patch and
83 does not touch the working tree when some of the hunks
84 do not apply. This option makes it apply
85 the parts of the patch that are applicable, and leave the
86 rejected hunks in corresponding *.rej files.
89 When showing the index information, do not munge paths,
90 but use NUL terminated machine readable format. Without
91 this flag, the pathnames output will have TAB, LF, and
92 backslash characters replaced with `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`,
96 Remove <n> leading slashes from traditional diff paths. The
100 Ensure at least <n> lines of surrounding context match before
101 and after each change. When fewer lines of surrounding
102 context exist they all must match. By default no context is
106 By default, 'git-apply' expects that the patch being
107 applied is a unified diff with at least one line of context.
108 This provides good safety measures, but breaks down when
109 applying a diff generated with --unified=0. To bypass these
110 checks use '--unidiff-zero'.
112 Note, for the reasons stated above usage of context-free patches are
116 If you use any of the options marked "Turns off
117 'apply'" above, 'git-apply' reads and outputs the
118 information you asked without actually applying the
119 patch. Give this flag after those flags to also apply
123 When applying a patch, ignore additions made by the
124 patch. This can be used to extract the common part between
125 two files by first running 'diff' on them and applying
126 the result with this option, which would apply the
127 deletion part but not addition part.
129 --allow-binary-replacement::
131 Historically we did not allow binary patch applied
132 without an explicit permission from the user, and this
133 flag was the way to do so. Currently we always allow binary
134 patch application, so this is a no-op.
136 --exclude=<path-pattern>::
137 Don't apply changes to files matching the given path pattern. This can
138 be useful when importing patchsets, where you want to exclude certain
139 files or directories.
141 --include=<path-pattern>::
142 Apply changes to files matching the given path pattern. This can
143 be useful when importing patchsets, where you want to include certain
144 files or directories.
146 When --exclude and --include patterns are used, they are examined in the
147 order they appear on the command line, and the first match determines if a
148 patch to each path is used. A patch to a path that does not match any
149 include/exclude pattern is used by default if there is no include pattern
150 on the command line, and ignored if there is any include pattern.
152 --whitespace=<action>::
153 When applying a patch, detect a new or modified line that has
154 whitespace errors. What are considered whitespace errors is
155 controlled by `core.whitespace` configuration. By default,
156 trailing whitespaces (including lines that solely consist of
157 whitespaces) and a space character that is immediately followed
158 by a tab character inside the initial indent of the line are
159 considered whitespace errors.
161 By default, the command outputs warning messages but applies the patch.
162 When `git-apply` is used for statistics and not applying a
163 patch, it defaults to `nowarn`.
165 You can use different `<action>` to control this
168 * `nowarn` turns off the trailing whitespace warning.
169 * `warn` outputs warnings for a few such errors, but applies the
170 patch as-is (default).
171 * `fix` outputs warnings for a few such errors, and applies the
172 patch after fixing them (`strip` is a synonym --- the tool
173 used to consider only trailing whitespaces as errors, and the
174 fix involved 'stripping' them, but modern gits do more).
175 * `error` outputs warnings for a few such errors, and refuses
177 * `error-all` is similar to `error` but shows all errors.
180 Under certain circumstances, some versions of 'diff' do not correctly
181 detect a missing new-line at the end of the file. As a result, patches
182 created by such 'diff' programs do not record incomplete lines
183 correctly. This option adds support for applying such patches by
184 working around this bug.
188 Report progress to stderr. By default, only a message about the
189 current patch being applied will be printed. This option will cause
190 additional information to be reported.
193 Do not trust the line counts in the hunk headers, but infer them
194 by inspecting the patch (e.g. after editing the patch without
195 adjusting the hunk headers appropriately).
198 Prepend <root> to all filenames. If a "-p" argument was passed, too,
199 it is applied before prepending the new root.
201 For example, a patch that talks about updating `a/git-gui.sh` to `b/git-gui.sh`
202 can be applied to the file in the working tree `modules/git-gui/git-gui.sh` by
203 running `git apply --directory=modules/git-gui`.
209 When no `--whitespace` flag is given from the command
210 line, this configuration item is used as the default.
214 If the patch contains any changes to submodules then 'git-apply'
215 treats these changes as follows.
217 If --index is specified (explicitly or implicitly), then the submodule
218 commits must match the index exactly for the patch to apply. If any
219 of the submodules are checked-out, then these check-outs are completely
220 ignored, i.e., they are not required to be up-to-date or clean and they
223 If --index is not specified, then the submodule commits in the patch
224 are ignored and only the absence of presence of the corresponding
225 subdirectory is checked and (if possible) updated.
229 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
233 Documentation by Junio C Hamano
237 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite