From 208beb7160e9d42ed3938d959525e6d89c642e39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:30:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.5.6.2-291-g7eef3

---
 git-apply.html | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 git-apply.txt  | 10 +++++++++-
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-apply.html b/git-apply.html
index 13ba3221b..12bdbc497 100644
--- a/git-apply.html
+++ b/git-apply.html
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ git-apply(1) Manual Page
           [--allow-binary-replacement | --binary] [--reject] [-z]
           [-pNUM] [-CNUM] [--inaccurate-eof] [--recount] [--cached]
           [--whitespace=&lt;nowarn|warn|fix|error|error-all&gt;]
-          [--exclude=PATH] [--verbose] [&lt;patch&gt;&#8230;]</div></div>
+          [--exclude=PATH] [--directory=&lt;root&gt;] [--verbose] [&lt;patch&gt;&#8230;]</div></div>
 </div>
 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
@@ -628,6 +628,18 @@ behavior:</p></div>
         adjusting the hunk headers appropriately).
 </p>
 </dd>
+<dt>
+--directory=&lt;root&gt;
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<p>
+        Prepend &lt;root&gt; to all filenames.  If a "-p" argument was passed, too,
+        it is applied before prepending the new root.
+</p>
+<div class="para"><p>For example, a patch that talks about updating <tt>a/git-gui.sh</tt> to <tt>b/git-gui.sh</tt>
+can be applied to the file in the working tree <tt>modules/git-gui/git-gui.sh</tt> by
+running <tt>git apply --directory=modules/git-gui</tt>.</p></div>
+</dd>
 </dl></div>
 </div>
 <h2 id="_configuration">Configuration</h2>
@@ -671,7 +683,7 @@ subdirectory is checked and (if possible) updated.</p></div>
 </div>
 <div id="footer">
 <div id="footer-text">
-Last updated 2008-07-06 05:16:34 UTC
+Last updated 2008-07-10 02:30:35 UTC
 </div>
 </div>
 </body>
diff --git a/git-apply.txt b/git-apply.txt
index e9f724b2f..feb51f124 100644
--- a/git-apply.txt
+++ b/git-apply.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 	  [--allow-binary-replacement | --binary] [--reject] [-z]
 	  [-pNUM] [-CNUM] [--inaccurate-eof] [--recount] [--cached]
 	  [--whitespace=<nowarn|warn|fix|error|error-all>]
-	  [--exclude=PATH] [--verbose] [<patch>...]
+	  [--exclude=PATH] [--directory=<root>] [--verbose] [<patch>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -182,6 +182,14 @@ behavior:
 	by inspecting the patch (e.g. after editing the patch without
 	adjusting the hunk headers appropriately).
 
+--directory=<root>::
+	Prepend <root> to all filenames.  If a "-p" argument was passed, too,
+	it is applied before prepending the new root.
++
+For example, a patch that talks about updating `a/git-gui.sh` to `b/git-gui.sh`
+can be applied to the file in the working tree `modules/git-gui/git-gui.sh` by
+running `git apply --directory=modules/git-gui`.
+
 Configuration
 -------------
 
-- 
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