6 git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
12 'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--[no-]keep-cr] [--[no-]utf8]
13 [--3way] [--interactive] [--committer-date-is-author-date]
14 [--ignore-date] [--ignore-space-change | --ignore-whitespace]
15 [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] [--directory=<dir>]
16 [--exclude=<path>] [--include=<path>] [--reject] [-q | --quiet]
17 [--[no-]scissors] [-S[<keyid>]] [--patch-format=<format>]
18 [(<mbox> | <Maildir>)...]
19 'git am' (--continue | --skip | --abort)
23 Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message,
24 authorship information and patches, and applies them to the
29 (<mbox>|<Maildir>)...::
30 The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
31 supply this argument, the command reads from the standard input.
32 If you supply directories, they will be treated as Maildirs.
36 Add a `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
37 the committer identity of yourself.
41 Pass `-k` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
44 Pass `-b` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
47 With `--keep-cr`, call 'git mailsplit' (see linkgit:git-mailsplit[1])
48 with the same option, to prevent it from stripping CR at the end of
49 lines. `am.keepcr` configuration variable can be used to specify the
50 default behaviour. `--no-keep-cr` is useful to override `am.keepcr`.
54 Remove everything in body before a scissors line (see
55 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). Can be activated by default using
56 the `mailinfo.scissors` configuration variable.
59 Ignore scissors lines (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
63 Pass the `-m` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]),
64 so that the Message-ID header is added to the commit message.
65 The `am.messageid` configuration variable can be used to specify
66 the default behaviour.
69 Do not add the Message-ID header to the commit message.
70 `no-message-id` is useful to override `am.messageid`.
74 Be quiet. Only print error messages.
78 Pass `-u` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
79 The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
80 is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
81 `i18n.commitencoding` can be used to specify project's
82 preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
84 This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
85 default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this.
88 Pass `-n` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see
89 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
93 When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
94 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs
95 it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs
98 --ignore-space-change::
100 --whitespace=<option>::
107 These flags are passed to the 'git apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1])
112 By default the command will try to detect the patch format
113 automatically. This option allows the user to bypass the automatic
114 detection and specify the patch format that the patch(es) should be
115 interpreted as. Valid formats are mbox, stgit, stgit-series and hg.
121 --committer-date-is-author-date::
122 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
123 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
124 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
125 user to lie about the committer date by using the same
126 value as the author date.
129 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
130 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
131 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
132 user to lie about the author date by using the same
133 value as the committer date.
136 Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
137 restarting an aborted patch.
140 --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
146 After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
147 conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
148 the index file stores the result of the application.
149 Make a commit using the authorship and commit log
150 extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
154 When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed
155 to the screen before exiting. This overrides the
156 standard message informing you to use `--continue`
157 or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely
158 for internal use between 'git rebase' and 'git am'.
161 Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation.
166 The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
167 message, and commit author date is taken from the "Date: " line
168 of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of
169 the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
170 The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the
171 commit is about in one line of text.
173 "From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the respective
174 commit author name and title values taken from the headers.
176 The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
177 "Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
178 where the patch begins. Excess whitespace at the end of each
179 line is automatically stripped.
181 The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
182 message. Any line that is of the form:
184 * three-dashes and end-of-line, or
185 * a line that begins with "diff -", or
186 * a line that begins with "Index: "
188 is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
189 is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.
191 When initially invoking `git am`, you give it the names of the mailboxes
192 to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
193 aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways:
195 . skip the current patch by re-running the command with the '--skip'
198 . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
199 the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should
200 have produced. Then run the command with the '--continue' option.
202 The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current
203 operation is finished, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
204 run `git am --abort` before running the command with mailbox
207 Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the
208 current branch. This is useful if you have problems with multiple
209 commits, like running 'git am' on the wrong branch or an error in the
210 commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g.
211 errors in the "From:" lines).
215 This command can run `applypatch-msg`, `pre-applypatch`,
216 and `post-applypatch` hooks. See linkgit:githooks[5] for more
221 linkgit:git-apply[1].
225 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite