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diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt index 75076b6121..1c64a1aa82 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply] [--no-add] [--index-info] [--allow-binary-replacement] [-z] [-pNUM] + [--whitespace=<nowarn|warn|error|error-all|strip>] [<patch>...] DESCRIPTION @@ -97,6 +98,35 @@ OPTIONS result. This allows binary files to be patched in a very limited way. +--whitespace=<option>:: + When applying a patch, detect a new or modified line + that ends with trailing whitespaces (this includes a + line that solely consists of whitespaces). By default, + the command outputs warning messages and applies the + patch. + When `git-apply` is used for statistics and not applying a + patch, it defaults to `nowarn`. + You can use different `<option>` to control this + behaviour: ++ +* `nowarn` turns off the trailing whitespace warning. +* `warn` outputs warnings for a few such errors, but applies the + patch (default). +* `error` outputs warnings for a few such errors, and refuses + to apply the patch. +* `error-all` is similar to `error` but shows all errors. +* `strip` outputs warnings for a few such errors, strips out the + trailing whitespaces and applies the patch. + + +Configuration +------------- + +apply.whitespace:: + When no `--whitespace` flag is given from the command + line, this configuration item is used as the default. + + Author ------ Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> |