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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-11-09 20:53:54 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-11-11 21:18:18 -0800
commite433705dd4dc52c45e5d82b615f07b5a4b27f185 (patch)
treef77e638ad72563e19fd597259d7f70acfc5d086f /Documentation
parentmerge-one-file: use common as base, instead of emptiness. (diff)
downloadtgif-e433705dd4dc52c45e5d82b615f07b5a4b27f185.tar.xz
Documentation: git-apply --no-add
This is a specialized hack to help no-base merges, but other people might find it useful, so let's document it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-apply.txt8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
index eb8f906837..6702a18c7e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-apply - Apply patch on a git index file and a work tree
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply] [--index-info] [-z] [<patch>...]
+'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply] [--no-add] [--index-info] [-z] [<patch>...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -72,6 +72,12 @@ OPTIONS
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
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