Merge branch 'lh/branch-rename'

[git.git] / Documentation / git-apply.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
index 0a6f7b32192df8a8a2266b0d302271a62c612b1f..2cc32d1c5efa0ba9c69ce59d481ca852045096c0 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
@@ -95,6 +95,16 @@ OPTIONS
        context exist they all must match.  By default no context is
        ever ignored.
 
+--unidiff-zero::
+       By default, gitlink:git-apply[1] 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 are
+discouraged.
+
 --apply::
        If you use any of the options marked "Turns off
        'apply'" above, gitlink:git-apply[1] reads and outputs the
@@ -140,7 +150,7 @@ OPTIONS
 * `strip` outputs warnings for a few such errors, strips out the
   trailing whitespaces and applies the patch.
 
---inacurate-eof::
+--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