git-apply
(1)
Name
git-apply - Apply a patch to files and/or to the index
Synopsis
git apply [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index]
[--apply] [--no-add] [--build-fake-ancestor=<file>] [-R | --reverse]
[--allow-binary-replacement | --binary] [--reject] [-z]
[-p<n>] [-C<n>] [--inaccurate-eof] [--recount] [--cached]
[--ignore-space-change | --ignore-whitespace ]
[--whitespace=(nowarn|warn|fix|error|error-all)]
[--exclude=<path>] [--include=<path>] [--directory=<root>]
[--verbose] [<patch>...]
Description
Git Manual GIT-APPLY(1)
NAME
git-apply - Apply a patch to files and/or to the index
SYNOPSIS
git apply [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index]
[--apply] [--no-add] [--build-fake-ancestor=<file>] [-R | --reverse]
[--allow-binary-replacement | --binary] [--reject] [-z]
[-p<n>] [-C<n>] [--inaccurate-eof] [--recount] [--cached]
[--ignore-space-change | --ignore-whitespace ]
[--whitespace=(nowarn|warn|fix|error|error-all)]
[--exclude=<path>] [--include=<path>] [--directory=<root>]
[--verbose] [<patch>...]
DESCRIPTION
Reads the supplied diff output (i.e. "a patch") and applies
it to files. With the --index option the patch is also
applied to the index, and with the --cached option the patch
is only applied to the index. Without these options, the
command applies the patch only to files, and does not
require them to be in a git repository.
This command applies the patch but does not create a commit.
Use git-am(1) to create commits from patches generated by
git-format-patch(1) and/or received by email.
OPTIONS
<patch>...
The files to read the 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 the number of added and
deleted lines in decimal notation and the pathname
without abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly.
For binary files, outputs two - instead of saying 0 0.
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 working tree and/or the index
file and detects errors. Turns off "apply".
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--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 working tree is not
up-to-date, it is flagged as an error. This flag also
causes the index file to be updated.
--cached
Apply a patch without touching the working tree. Instead
take the cached data, apply the patch, and store the
result in the index without using the working tree. This
implies --index.
--build-fake-ancestor=<file>
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 versions of the blobs are available locally,
builds a temporary index containing those blobs.
When a pure mode change is encountered (which has no
index information), the information is read from the
current index instead.
-R, --reverse
Apply the patch in reverse.
--reject
For atomicity, git apply 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
rejected hunks in corresponding *.rej files.
-z
When --numstat has been given, do not munge pathnames,
but use a NUL-terminated machine-readable format.
Without this option, each pathname output will have TAB,
LF, double quotes, and backslash characters replaced
with \t, \n, \", and \\, respectively, and the pathname
will be enclosed in double quotes if any of those
replacements occurred.
-p<n>
Remove <n> leading slashes from traditional diff paths.
The default is 1.
-C<n>
Ensure at least <n> lines of surrounding context match
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before and after each change. When fewer lines of
surrounding context exist they all must match. By
default no context is ever ignored.
--unidiff-zero
By default, git apply 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 checks use --unidiff-zero.
Note, for the reasons stated above usage of context-free
patches is discouraged.
--apply
If you use any of the options marked "Turns off apply"
above, git apply reads and outputs the requested
information 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 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 the addition part.
--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 patch application, so this is a no-op.
--exclude=<path-pattern>
Don't apply changes to files matching the given path
pattern. This can be useful when importing patchsets,
where you want to exclude certain files or directories.
--include=<path-pattern>
Apply changes to files matching the given path pattern.
This can be useful when importing patchsets, where you
want to include certain files or directories.
When --exclude and --include patterns are used, they are
examined in the order they appear on the command line,
and the first match determines if a patch to each path
is used. A patch to a path that does not match any
include/exclude pattern is used by default if there is
no include pattern on the command line, and ignored if
there is any include pattern.
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--ignore-space-change, --ignore-whitespace
When applying a patch, ignore changes in whitespace in
context lines if necessary. Context lines will preserve
their whitespace, and they will not undergo whitespace
fixing regardless of the value of the --whitespace
option. New lines will still be fixed, though.
--whitespace=<action>
When applying a patch, detect a new or modified line
that has whitespace errors. What are considered
whitespace errors is controlled by core.whitespace
configuration. By default, trailing whitespaces
(including lines that solely consist of whitespaces) and
a space character that is immediately followed by a tab
character inside the initial indent of the line are
considered whitespace errors.
By default, the command outputs warning messages but
applies the patch. When git-apply is used for statistics
and not applying a patch, it defaults to nowarn.
You can use different <action> values to control this
behavior:
o nowarn turns off the trailing whitespace warning.
o warn outputs warnings for a few such errors, but
applies the patch as-is (default).
o fix outputs warnings for a few such errors, and
applies the patch after fixing them (strip is a
synonym --- the tool used to consider only trailing
whitespace characters as errors, and the fix
involved stripping them, but modern gits do more).
o error outputs warnings for a few such errors, and
refuses to apply the patch.
o error-all is similar to error but shows all errors.
--inaccurate-eof
Under certain circumstances, some versions of diff do
not correctly detect a missing new-line at the end of
the file. As a result, patches created by such diff
programs do not record incomplete lines correctly. This
option adds support for applying such patches by working
around this bug.
-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
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reported.
--recount
Do not trust the line counts in the hunk headers, but
infer them by inspecting the patch (e.g. after editing
the patch without adjusting the hunk headers
appropriately).
--directory=<root>
Prepend <root> to all filenames. If a "-p" argument was
also passed, it is applied before prepending the new
root.
For example, a patch that talks about updating
a/git-gui.sh to b/git-gui.sh can be applied to the file
in the working tree modules/git-gui/git-gui.sh by
running git apply --directory=modules/git-gui.
CONFIGURATION
apply.ignorewhitespace
Set to change if you want changes in whitespace to be
ignored by default. Set to one of: no, none, never,
false if you want changes in whitespace to be
significant.
apply.whitespace
When no --whitespace flag is given from the command
line, this configuration item is used as the default.
SUBMODULES
If the patch contains any changes to submodules then git
apply treats these changes as follows.
If --index is specified (explicitly or implicitly), then the
submodule commits must match the index exactly for the patch
to apply. If any of the submodules are checked-out, then
these check-outs are completely ignored, i.e., they are not
required to be up-to-date or clean and they are not updated.
If --index is not specified, then the submodule commits in
the patch are ignored and only the absence or presence of
the corresponding subdirectory is checked and (if possible)
updated.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
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+---------------+--------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Availability | developer/versioning/git |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------------+
SEE ALSO
git-am(1).
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from http://git-
core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.9.2.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://git-scm.com/.
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