GIT 0.99.9j aka 1.0rc3

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
index 6702a18..626e281 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-apply - Apply patch on a git index file and a work tree
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply] [--no-add] [--index-info] [-z] [<patch>...]
+'git-apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] [--apply] [--no-add] [--index-info] [--allow-binary-replacement] [-z] [<patch>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -79,6 +79,17 @@ OPTIONS
        the result with this option, which would apply the
        deletion part but not addition part.
 
+--allow-binary-replacement::
+       When applying a patch, which is a git-enhanced patch
+       that was prepared to record the pre- and post-image object
+       name in full, and the path being patched exactly matches
+       the object the patch applies to (i.e. "index" line's
+       pre-image object name is what is in the working tree),
+       and the post-image object is available in the object
+       database, use the post-image object as the patch
+       result.  This allows binary files to be patched in a
+       very limited way.
+
 Author
 ------
 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>