git apply --check should give some indication that a patch applies cleanly
- From
- Daniel Dromboski <dandromb@gmail.com>
- Date
- Mar 14, 2019, 18:28 UTC
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- <CAGGzCPF_0ZGWn1-GCLLb=1XKcW936U_4CxiNRHPCV1kw5ZeOBw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi folks,
The main purpose of `git apply --check` is to see if a patch can apply.
It's not intuitive to a user, just from the command name, that "no output" means your patch can apply cleanly.
Furthermore, `git apply --check --verbose` only says that it is checking the patch, ending with "..." which usually means "more info to come"... But it doesn't print anything else. An example command and output:
``` $ git apply --check --verbose [my-patch.patch] Checking patch [path/to/file.ext]... ```
I'd like if there were some way for the command to confirm outright that the patch applies, to save users the confusion.
Thanks.