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4 <article lang="en" id="git-quiltimport(1)">
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6 <title>git-quiltimport(1)</title>
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8 <primary>git-quiltimport(1)</primary>
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11 <simplesect id="_name">
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13 <simpara>git-quiltimport - Applies a quilt patchset onto the current branch</simpara>
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15 <simplesect id="_synopsis">
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16 <title>SYNOPSIS</title>
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18 <literallayout><emphasis>git quiltimport</emphasis> [--dry-run | -n] [--author <author>] [--patches <dir>]</literallayout>
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21 <simplesect id="_description">
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22 <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
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23 <simpara>Applies a quilt patchset onto the current git branch, preserving
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24 the patch boundaries, patch order, and patch descriptions present
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25 in the quilt patchset.</simpara>
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26 <simpara>For each patch the code attempts to extract the author from the
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27 patch description. If that fails it falls back to the author
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28 specified with --author. If the --author flag was not given
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29 the patch description is displayed and the user is asked to
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30 interactively enter the author of the patch.</simpara>
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31 <simpara>If a subject is not found in the patch description the patch name is
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32 preserved as the 1 line subject in the git description.</simpara>
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34 <simplesect id="_options">
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35 <title>OPTIONS</title>
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46 Walk through the patches in the series and warn
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47 if we cannot find all of the necessary information to commit
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48 a patch. At the time of this writing only missing author
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49 information is warned about.
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55 --author Author Name <Author Email>
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59 The author name and email address to use when no author
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60 information can be found in the patch description.
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66 --patches <dir>
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70 The directory to find the quilt patches and the
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73 <simpara>The default for the patch directory is patches
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74 or the value of the $QUILT_PATCHES environment
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80 <simplesect id="_git">
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82 <simpara>Part of the <xref linkend="git(1)" /> suite</simpara>
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