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NAME
       git-apply - Apply a patch to files and/or to the index

SYNOPSIS
       git apply [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index | --intent-to-add] [--3way]
		 [--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 | --quiet] [--unsafe-paths] [--allow-empty] [<patch>...]


DESCRIPTION
       Reads the supplied diff output (i.e. "a patch") and applies it to
       files. When running from a subdirectory in a repository, patched paths
       outside the directory are ignored. 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".

       --index
	   Apply the patch to both the index and the working tree (or merely
	   check that it would apply cleanly to both if --check is in effect).
	   Note that --index expects index entries and working tree copies for
	   relevant paths to be identical (their contents and metadata such as
	   file mode must match), and will raise an error if they are not,
	   even if the patch would apply cleanly to both the index and the
	   working tree in isolation.

       --cached
	   Apply the patch to just the index, without touching the working
	   tree. If --check is in effect, merely check that it would apply
	   cleanly to the index entry.

       --intent-to-add
	   When applying the patch only to the working tree, mark new files to
	   be added to the index later (see --intent-to-add option in git-
	   add(1)). This option is ignored unless running in a Git repository
	   and --index is not specified. Note that --index could be implied by
	   other options such as --cached or --3way.

       -3, --3way
	   Attempt 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs it
	   is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs available locally,
	   possibly leaving the conflict markers in the files in the working
	   tree for the user to resolve. This option implies the --index
	   option unless the --cached option is used, and is incompatible with
	   the --reject option. When used with the --cached option, any
	   conflicts are left at higher stages in the cache.

       --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, pathnames with "unusual" characters are quoted
	   as explained for the configuration variable core.quotePath (see
	   git-config(1)).

       -p<n>
	   Remove <n> leading path components (separated by slashes) from
	   traditional diff paths. E.g., with -p2, a patch against a/dir/file
	   will be applied directly to file. The default is 1.

       -C<n>
	   Ensure at least <n> lines of surrounding context match 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.

       --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 reported.

       -q, --quiet
	   Suppress stderr output. Messages about patch status and progress
	   will not be printed.

       --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.

       --unsafe-paths
	   By default, a patch that affects outside the working area (either a
	   Git controlled working tree, or the current working directory when
	   "git apply" is used as a replacement of GNU patch) is rejected as a
	   mistake (or a mischief).

	   When git apply is used as a "better GNU patch", the user can pass
	   the --unsafe-paths option to override this safety check. This
	   option has no effect when --index or --cached is in use.

       --allow-empty
	   Don't return error for patches containing no diff. This includes
	   empty patches and patches with commit text only.

CONFIGURATION
       Everything below this line in this section is selectively included from
       the git-config(1) documentation. The content is the same as what's
       found there:

       apply.ignoreWhitespace
	   When set to change, tells git apply to ignore changes in
	   whitespace, in the same way as the --ignore-space-change option.
	   When set to one of: no, none, never, false tells git apply to
	   respect all whitespace differences. See git-apply(1).

       apply.whitespace
	   Tells git apply how to handle whitespaces, in the same way as the
	   --whitespace option. See git-apply(1).

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.

SEE ALSO
       git-am(1).

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite



Git 2.38.4			  05/16/2024			  GIT-APPLY(1)