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737 <h1>
738 git-am(1) Manual Page
739 </h1>
740 <h2>NAME</h2>
741 <div class="sectionbody">
742 <p>git-am -
743 Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
744 </p>
745 </div>
746 </div>
747 <div id="content">
748 <div class="sect1">
749 <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
750 <div class="sectionbody">
751 <div class="verseblock">
752 <pre class="content"><em>git am</em> [--signoff] [--keep] [--[no-]keep-cr] [--[no-]utf8] [--no-verify]
753 [--[no-]3way] [--interactive] [--committer-date-is-author-date]
754 [--ignore-date] [--ignore-space-change | --ignore-whitespace]
755 [--whitespace=&lt;action&gt;] [-C&lt;n&gt;] [-p&lt;n&gt;] [--directory=&lt;dir&gt;]
756 [--exclude=&lt;path&gt;] [--include=&lt;path&gt;] [--reject] [-q | --quiet]
757 [--[no-]scissors] [-S[&lt;keyid&gt;]] [--patch-format=&lt;format&gt;]
758 [--quoted-cr=&lt;action&gt;]
759 [--empty=(stop|drop|keep)]
760 [(&lt;mbox&gt; | &lt;Maildir&gt;)&#8230;]
761 <em>git am</em> (--continue | --skip | --abort | --quit | --show-current-patch[=(diff|raw)] | --allow-empty)</pre>
762 <div class="attribution">
763 </div></div>
764 </div>
765 </div>
766 <div class="sect1">
767 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
768 <div class="sectionbody">
769 <div class="paragraph"><p>Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log messages,
770 authorship information, and patches, and applies them to the
771 current branch. You could think of it as a reverse operation
772 of <a href="git-format-patch.html">git-format-patch(1)</a> run on a branch with a straight
773 history without merges.</p></div>
774 </div>
775 </div>
776 <div class="sect1">
777 <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
778 <div class="sectionbody">
779 <div class="dlist"><dl>
780 <dt class="hdlist1">
781 (&lt;mbox&gt;|&lt;Maildir&gt;)&#8230;
782 </dt>
783 <dd>
785 The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
786 supply this argument, the command reads from the standard input.
787 If you supply directories, they will be treated as Maildirs.
788 </p>
789 </dd>
790 <dt class="hdlist1">
792 </dt>
793 <dt class="hdlist1">
794 --signoff
795 </dt>
796 <dd>
798 Add a <code>Signed-off-by</code> trailer to the commit message, using
799 the committer identity of yourself.
800 See the signoff option in <a href="git-commit.html">git-commit(1)</a> for more information.
801 </p>
802 </dd>
803 <dt class="hdlist1">
805 </dt>
806 <dt class="hdlist1">
807 --keep
808 </dt>
809 <dd>
811 Pass <code>-k</code> flag to <em>git mailinfo</em> (see <a href="git-mailinfo.html">git-mailinfo(1)</a>).
812 </p>
813 </dd>
814 <dt class="hdlist1">
815 --keep-non-patch
816 </dt>
817 <dd>
819 Pass <code>-b</code> flag to <em>git mailinfo</em> (see <a href="git-mailinfo.html">git-mailinfo(1)</a>).
820 </p>
821 </dd>
822 <dt class="hdlist1">
823 --[no-]keep-cr
824 </dt>
825 <dd>
827 With <code>--keep-cr</code>, call <em>git mailsplit</em> (see <a href="git-mailsplit.html">git-mailsplit(1)</a>)
828 with the same option, to prevent it from stripping CR at the end of
829 lines. <code>am.keepcr</code> configuration variable can be used to specify the
830 default behaviour. <code>--no-keep-cr</code> is useful to override <code>am.keepcr</code>.
831 </p>
832 </dd>
833 <dt class="hdlist1">
835 </dt>
836 <dt class="hdlist1">
837 --scissors
838 </dt>
839 <dd>
841 Remove everything in body before a scissors line (see
842 <a href="git-mailinfo.html">git-mailinfo(1)</a>). Can be activated by default using
843 the <code>mailinfo.scissors</code> configuration variable.
844 </p>
845 </dd>
846 <dt class="hdlist1">
847 --no-scissors
848 </dt>
849 <dd>
851 Ignore scissors lines (see <a href="git-mailinfo.html">git-mailinfo(1)</a>).
852 </p>
853 </dd>
854 <dt class="hdlist1">
855 --quoted-cr=&lt;action&gt;
856 </dt>
857 <dd>
859 This flag will be passed down to <em>git mailinfo</em> (see <a href="git-mailinfo.html">git-mailinfo(1)</a>).
860 </p>
861 </dd>
862 <dt class="hdlist1">
863 --empty=(stop|drop|keep)
864 </dt>
865 <dd>
867 By default, or when the option is set to <em>stop</em>, the command
868 errors out on an input e-mail message lacking a patch
869 and stops in the middle of the current am session. When this
870 option is set to <em>drop</em>, skip such an e-mail message instead.
871 When this option is set to <em>keep</em>, create an empty commit,
872 recording the contents of the e-mail message as its log.
873 </p>
874 </dd>
875 <dt class="hdlist1">
877 </dt>
878 <dt class="hdlist1">
879 --message-id
880 </dt>
881 <dd>
883 Pass the <code>-m</code> flag to <em>git mailinfo</em> (see <a href="git-mailinfo.html">git-mailinfo(1)</a>),
884 so that the Message-ID header is added to the commit message.
885 The <code>am.messageid</code> configuration variable can be used to specify
886 the default behaviour.
887 </p>
888 </dd>
889 <dt class="hdlist1">
890 --no-message-id
891 </dt>
892 <dd>
894 Do not add the Message-ID header to the commit message.
895 <code>no-message-id</code> is useful to override <code>am.messageid</code>.
896 </p>
897 </dd>
898 <dt class="hdlist1">
900 </dt>
901 <dt class="hdlist1">
902 --quiet
903 </dt>
904 <dd>
906 Be quiet. Only print error messages.
907 </p>
908 </dd>
909 <dt class="hdlist1">
911 </dt>
912 <dt class="hdlist1">
913 --utf8
914 </dt>
915 <dd>
917 Pass <code>-u</code> flag to <em>git mailinfo</em> (see <a href="git-mailinfo.html">git-mailinfo(1)</a>).
918 The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
919 is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
920 <code>i18n.commitEncoding</code> can be used to specify the project&#8217;s
921 preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
922 </p>
923 <div class="paragraph"><p>This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
924 default. You can use <code>--no-utf8</code> to override this.</p></div>
925 </dd>
926 <dt class="hdlist1">
927 --no-utf8
928 </dt>
929 <dd>
931 Pass <code>-n</code> flag to <em>git mailinfo</em> (see
932 <a href="git-mailinfo.html">git-mailinfo(1)</a>).
933 </p>
934 </dd>
935 <dt class="hdlist1">
937 </dt>
938 <dt class="hdlist1">
939 --3way
940 </dt>
941 <dt class="hdlist1">
942 --no-3way
943 </dt>
944 <dd>
946 When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
947 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs
948 it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs
949 available locally. <code>--no-3way</code> can be used to override
950 am.threeWay configuration variable. For more information,
951 see am.threeWay in <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a>.
952 </p>
953 </dd>
954 <dt class="hdlist1">
955 --rerere-autoupdate
956 </dt>
957 <dt class="hdlist1">
958 --no-rerere-autoupdate
959 </dt>
960 <dd>
962 After the rerere mechanism reuses a recorded resolution on
963 the current conflict to update the files in the working
964 tree, allow it to also update the index with the result of
965 resolution. <code>--no-rerere-autoupdate</code> is a good way to
966 double-check what <code>rerere</code> did and catch potential
967 mismerges, before committing the result to the index with a
968 separate <code>git add</code>.
969 </p>
970 </dd>
971 <dt class="hdlist1">
972 --ignore-space-change
973 </dt>
974 <dt class="hdlist1">
975 --ignore-whitespace
976 </dt>
977 <dt class="hdlist1">
978 --whitespace=&lt;action&gt;
979 </dt>
980 <dt class="hdlist1">
981 -C&lt;n&gt;
982 </dt>
983 <dt class="hdlist1">
984 -p&lt;n&gt;
985 </dt>
986 <dt class="hdlist1">
987 --directory=&lt;dir&gt;
988 </dt>
989 <dt class="hdlist1">
990 --exclude=&lt;path&gt;
991 </dt>
992 <dt class="hdlist1">
993 --include=&lt;path&gt;
994 </dt>
995 <dt class="hdlist1">
996 --reject
997 </dt>
998 <dd>
1000 These flags are passed to the <em>git apply</em> (see <a href="git-apply.html">git-apply(1)</a>)
1001 program that applies
1002 the patch.
1003 </p>
1004 </dd>
1005 <dt class="hdlist1">
1006 --patch-format
1007 </dt>
1008 <dd>
1010 By default the command will try to detect the patch format
1011 automatically. This option allows the user to bypass the automatic
1012 detection and specify the patch format that the patch(es) should be
1013 interpreted as. Valid formats are mbox, mboxrd,
1014 stgit, stgit-series, and hg.
1015 </p>
1016 </dd>
1017 <dt class="hdlist1">
1019 </dt>
1020 <dt class="hdlist1">
1021 --interactive
1022 </dt>
1023 <dd>
1025 Run interactively.
1026 </p>
1027 </dd>
1028 <dt class="hdlist1">
1030 </dt>
1031 <dt class="hdlist1">
1032 --no-verify
1033 </dt>
1034 <dd>
1036 By default, the pre-applypatch and applypatch-msg hooks are run.
1037 When any of <code>--no-verify</code> or <code>-n</code> is given, these are bypassed.
1038 See also <a href="githooks.html">githooks(5)</a>.
1039 </p>
1040 </dd>
1041 <dt class="hdlist1">
1042 --committer-date-is-author-date
1043 </dt>
1044 <dd>
1046 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
1047 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
1048 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
1049 user to lie about the committer date by using the same
1050 value as the author date.
1051 </p>
1052 </dd>
1053 <dt class="hdlist1">
1054 --ignore-date
1055 </dt>
1056 <dd>
1058 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
1059 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
1060 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
1061 user to lie about the author date by using the same
1062 value as the committer date.
1063 </p>
1064 </dd>
1065 <dt class="hdlist1">
1066 --skip
1067 </dt>
1068 <dd>
1070 Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
1071 restarting an aborted patch.
1072 </p>
1073 </dd>
1074 <dt class="hdlist1">
1075 -S[&lt;keyid&gt;]
1076 </dt>
1077 <dt class="hdlist1">
1078 --gpg-sign[=&lt;keyid&gt;]
1079 </dt>
1080 <dt class="hdlist1">
1081 --no-gpg-sign
1082 </dt>
1083 <dd>
1085 GPG-sign commits. The <code>keyid</code> argument is optional and
1086 defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be
1087 stuck to the option without a space. <code>--no-gpg-sign</code> is useful to
1088 countermand both <code>commit.gpgSign</code> configuration variable, and
1089 earlier <code>--gpg-sign</code>.
1090 </p>
1091 </dd>
1092 <dt class="hdlist1">
1093 --continue
1094 </dt>
1095 <dt class="hdlist1">
1097 </dt>
1098 <dt class="hdlist1">
1099 --resolved
1100 </dt>
1101 <dd>
1103 After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
1104 conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
1105 the index file stores the result of the application.
1106 Make a commit using the authorship and commit log
1107 extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
1108 file, and continue.
1109 </p>
1110 </dd>
1111 <dt class="hdlist1">
1112 --resolvemsg=&lt;msg&gt;
1113 </dt>
1114 <dd>
1116 When a patch failure occurs, &lt;msg&gt; will be printed
1117 to the screen before exiting. This overrides the
1118 standard message informing you to use <code>--continue</code>
1119 or <code>--skip</code> to handle the failure. This is solely
1120 for internal use between <em>git rebase</em> and <em>git am</em>.
1121 </p>
1122 </dd>
1123 <dt class="hdlist1">
1124 --abort
1125 </dt>
1126 <dd>
1128 Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation.
1129 Revert the contents of files involved in the am operation to their
1130 pre-am state.
1131 </p>
1132 </dd>
1133 <dt class="hdlist1">
1134 --quit
1135 </dt>
1136 <dd>
1138 Abort the patching operation but keep HEAD and the index
1139 untouched.
1140 </p>
1141 </dd>
1142 <dt class="hdlist1">
1143 --show-current-patch[=(diff|raw)]
1144 </dt>
1145 <dd>
1147 Show the message at which <code>git am</code> has stopped due to
1148 conflicts. If <code>raw</code> is specified, show the raw contents of
1149 the e-mail message; if <code>diff</code>, show the diff portion only.
1150 Defaults to <code>raw</code>.
1151 </p>
1152 </dd>
1153 <dt class="hdlist1">
1154 --allow-empty
1155 </dt>
1156 <dd>
1158 After a patch failure on an input e-mail message lacking a patch,
1159 create an empty commit with the contents of the e-mail message
1160 as its log message.
1161 </p>
1162 </dd>
1163 </dl></div>
1164 </div>
1165 </div>
1166 <div class="sect1">
1167 <h2 id="_discussion">DISCUSSION</h2>
1168 <div class="sectionbody">
1169 <div class="paragraph"><p>The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
1170 message, and commit author date is taken from the "Date: " line
1171 of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of
1172 the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH &lt;anything&gt;]".
1173 The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the
1174 commit is about in one line of text.</p></div>
1175 <div class="paragraph"><p>"From: ", "Date: ", and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the
1176 respective commit author name and title values taken from the headers.</p></div>
1177 <div class="paragraph"><p>The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
1178 "Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
1179 where the patch begins. Excess whitespace at the end of each
1180 line is automatically stripped.</p></div>
1181 <div class="paragraph"><p>The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
1182 message. Any line that is of the form:</p></div>
1183 <div class="ulist"><ul>
1184 <li>
1186 three-dashes and end-of-line, or
1187 </p>
1188 </li>
1189 <li>
1191 a line that begins with "diff -", or
1192 </p>
1193 </li>
1194 <li>
1196 a line that begins with "Index: "
1197 </p>
1198 </li>
1199 </ul></div>
1200 <div class="paragraph"><p>is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
1201 is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.</p></div>
1202 <div class="paragraph"><p>When initially invoking <code>git am</code>, you give it the names of the mailboxes
1203 to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
1204 aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways:</p></div>
1205 <div class="olist arabic"><ol class="arabic">
1206 <li>
1208 skip the current patch by re-running the command with the <code>--skip</code>
1209 option.
1210 </p>
1211 </li>
1212 <li>
1214 hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
1215 the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should
1216 have produced. Then run the command with the <code>--continue</code> option.
1217 </p>
1218 </li>
1219 </ol></div>
1220 <div class="paragraph"><p>The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current
1221 operation is finished, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
1222 run <code>git am --abort</code> before running the command with mailbox
1223 names.</p></div>
1224 <div class="paragraph"><p>Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the
1225 current branch. This is useful if you have problems with multiple
1226 commits, like running <em>git am</em> on the wrong branch or an error in the
1227 commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g.
1228 errors in the "From:" lines).</p></div>
1229 </div>
1230 </div>
1231 <div class="sect1">
1232 <h2 id="_hooks">HOOKS</h2>
1233 <div class="sectionbody">
1234 <div class="paragraph"><p>This command can run <code>applypatch-msg</code>, <code>pre-applypatch</code>,
1235 and <code>post-applypatch</code> hooks. See <a href="githooks.html">githooks(5)</a> for more
1236 information.</p></div>
1237 </div>
1238 </div>
1239 <div class="sect1">
1240 <h2 id="_configuration">CONFIGURATION</h2>
1241 <div class="sectionbody">
1242 <div class="paragraph"><p>Everything below this line in this section is selectively included
1243 from the <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a> documentation. The content is the same
1244 as what&#8217;s found there:</p></div>
1245 <div class="dlist"><dl>
1246 <dt class="hdlist1">
1247 am.keepcr
1248 </dt>
1249 <dd>
1251 If true, git-am will call git-mailsplit for patches in mbox format
1252 with parameter <code>--keep-cr</code>. In this case git-mailsplit will
1253 not remove <code>\r</code> from lines ending with <code>\r\n</code>. Can be overridden
1254 by giving <code>--no-keep-cr</code> from the command line.
1255 See <a href="git-am.html">git-am(1)</a>, <a href="git-mailsplit.html">git-mailsplit(1)</a>.
1256 </p>
1257 </dd>
1258 <dt class="hdlist1">
1259 am.threeWay
1260 </dt>
1261 <dd>
1263 By default, <code>git am</code> will fail if the patch does not apply cleanly. When
1264 set to true, this setting tells <code>git am</code> to fall back on 3-way merge if
1265 the patch records the identity of blobs it is supposed to apply to and
1266 we have those blobs available locally (equivalent to giving the <code>--3way</code>
1267 option from the command line). Defaults to <code>false</code>.
1268 See <a href="git-am.html">git-am(1)</a>.
1269 </p>
1270 </dd>
1271 </dl></div>
1272 </div>
1273 </div>
1274 <div class="sect1">
1275 <h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2>
1276 <div class="sectionbody">
1277 <div class="paragraph"><p><a href="git-apply.html">git-apply(1)</a>,
1278 <a href="git-format-patch.html">git-format-patch(1)</a>.</p></div>
1279 </div>
1280 </div>
1281 <div class="sect1">
1282 <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
1283 <div class="sectionbody">
1284 <div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
1285 </div>
1286 </div>
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