Merge branch 'maint'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
index 4c7e3a2f7f5d542cd95059430f53143bba59fc7f..c1c54bfe0b7d2c1b133e245a3a963caa0b7afb8c 100644 (file)
--- 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.