Merge branch 'jc/partial-remove'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
index 33b93db508062529fe956b79e0618e67848b19de..4c7e3a2f7f5d542cd95059430f53143bba59fc7f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
@@ -3,17 +3,18 @@ git-apply(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-apply - Apply patch on a git index file and a work tree
+git-apply - Apply a patch on a git index file and a working tree
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply]
-         [--no-add] [--index-info] [--allow-binary-replacement | --binary]
-         [-R | --reverse] [--reject] [-z] [-pNUM] [-CNUM] [--inaccurate-eof]
-         [--whitespace=<nowarn|warn|error|error-all|strip>] [--exclude=PATH]
-         [--cached] [--verbose] [<patch>...]
+'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index]
+         [--apply] [--no-add] [--index-info] [-R | --reverse]
+         [--allow-binary-replacement | --binary] [--reject] [-z]
+         [-pNUM] [-CNUM] [--inaccurate-eof] [--cached]
+         [--whitespace=<nowarn|warn|error|error-all|strip>]
+         [--exclude=PATH] [--verbose] [<patch>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -158,7 +159,7 @@ discouraged.
        correctly. This option adds support for applying such patches by
        working around this bug.
 
---verbose::
+-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.
@@ -170,6 +171,20 @@ apply.whitespace::
        When no `--whitespace` flag is given from the command
        line, this configuration item is used as the default.
 
+Submodules
+----------
+If the patch contains any changes to submodules then gitlink:git-apply[1]
+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 of presence of the corresponding
+subdirectory is checked and (if possible) updated.
 
 Author
 ------
@@ -182,4 +197,3 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-