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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-09-23 21:16:33 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-09-23 21:16:33 -0700
commit52d5bc9a161f839b78ec06c25736d09703fda802 (patch)
tree8ef92ac1a031de4929da08ce29cc878d6525be31 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'maint' (diff)
parentapply: get rid of --index-info in favor of --build-fake-ancestor (diff)
downloadtgif-52d5bc9a161f839b78ec06c25736d09703fda802.tar.xz
Merge branch 'js/apply-build-ancestor'
* js/apply-build-ancestor: apply: get rid of --index-info in favor of --build-fake-ancestor
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-apply.txt11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
index 4c7e3a2f7f..c1c54bfe0b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index]
- [--apply] [--no-add] [--index-info] [-R | --reverse]
+ [--apply] [--no-add] [--build-fake-ancestor <file>] [-R | --reverse]
[--allow-binary-replacement | --binary] [--reject] [-z]
[-pNUM] [-CNUM] [--inaccurate-eof] [--cached]
[--whitespace=<nowarn|warn|error|error-all|strip>]
@@ -63,12 +63,15 @@ OPTIONS
cached data, apply the patch, and store the result in the index,
without using the working tree. This implies '--index'.
---index-info::
+--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 version of the blob is available locally,
- outputs information about them to the standard output.
+ the original versions of the blobs is 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.