git-apply(1) ============ NAME ---- git-apply - Apply patch on a git index file and a work tree SYNOPSIS -------- 'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply] [--no-add] [--index-info] [-z] [...] DESCRIPTION ----------- Reads supplied diff output and applies it on a git index file and a work tree. OPTIONS ------- ...:: The files to read patch from. '-' can be used to read from the standard input. --stat:: Instead of applying the patch, output diffstat for the input. Turns off "apply". --numstat:: Similar to \--stat, but shows number of added and deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly. Turns off "apply". --summary:: Instead of applying the patch, output a condensed summary of information obtained from git diff extended headers, such as creations, renames and mode changes. Turns off "apply". --check:: Instead of applying the patch, see if the patch is applicable to the current work tree and/or the index file and detects errors. Turns off "apply". --index:: When --check is in effect, or when applying the patch (which is the default when none of the options that disables it is in effect), make sure the patch is applicable to what the current index file records. If the file to be patched in the work tree is not up-to-date, it is flagged as an error. This flag also causes the index file to be updated. --index-info:: Newer git-diff output has embedded 'index information' for each blob to help identify the original version that the patch applies to. When this flag is given, and if the original version of the blob is available locally, outputs information about them to the standard output. -z:: When showing the index information, do not munge paths, but use NUL terminated machine readable format. Without this flag, the pathnames output will have TAB, LF, and backslash characters replaced with `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`, respectively. --apply:: If you use any of the options marked ``Turns off "apply"'' above, git-apply 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 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. Author ------ Written by Linus Torvalds Documentation -------------- Documentation by Junio C Hamano GIT --- Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite