From 16a86d432913db209214e03206c0ec7e14b8a562 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Nguy=E1=BB=85n=20Th=C3=A1i=20Ng=E1=BB=8Dc=20Duy?= Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 18:56:17 +0700 Subject: git-apply.txt: mention the behavior inside a subdir MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-apply.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt index 5444d2ffeb..8ddb207409 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- Reads the supplied diff output (i.e. "a patch") and applies it to files. +When running from a subdirectory in a repository, patched paths +outside the directory are ignored. With the `--index` option the patch is also applied to the index, and with the `--cached` option the patch is only applied to the index. Without these options, the command applies the patch only to files, -- cgit v1.2.3