{"thread":{"id":"50741","subject":"git apply --check should give some indication that a patch applies cleanly","startedAt":"2019-03-14T18:28:26Z","lastAt":"2019-03-14T18:28:26Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Daniel Dromboski"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"371530","messageId":"CAGGzCPF_0ZGWn1-GCLLb=1XKcW936U_4CxiNRHPCV1kw5ZeOBw@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"50741","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"git apply --check should give some indication that a patch applies cleanly","fromName":"Daniel Dromboski","fromEmail":"dandromb@gmail.com","sentAt":"2019-03-14T18:28:22Z","receivedAt":"2019-03-14T18:28:26Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"dandromb@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hi folks,\n\nThe main purpose of `git apply --check` is to see if a patch can apply.\n\nIt's not intuitive to a user, just from the command name, that \"no\noutput\" means your patch can apply cleanly.\n\nFurthermore, `git apply --check --verbose` only says that it is\nchecking the patch, ending with \"...\" which usually means \"more info\nto come\"... But it doesn't print anything else. An example command and\noutput:\n\n```\n$ git apply --check --verbose [my-patch.patch]\nChecking patch [path/to/file.ext]...\n```\n\nI'd like if there were some way for the command to confirm outright\nthat the patch applies, to save users the confusion.\n\nThanks.\n"}]}