6 git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
12 'git-am' [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--keep] [--utf8 | --no-utf8]
13 [--3way] [--interactive] [--binary]
14 [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>]
16 'git-am' [--skip | --resolved]
20 Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message,
21 authorship information and patches, and applies them to the
27 The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
28 supply this argument, reads from the standard input. If you supply
29 directories, they'll be treated as Maildirs.
32 Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
33 the committer identity of yourself.
35 -d=<dir>, --dotest=<dir>::
36 Instead of `.dotest` directory, use <dir> as a working
37 area to store extracted patches.
40 Pass `-k` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
43 Pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
44 The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
45 is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
46 `i18n.commitencoding` can be used to specify project's
47 preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
49 This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
50 default. You could use `--no-utf8` to override this.
53 Pass `-n` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see
54 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
57 When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
58 3-way merge, if the patch records the identity of blobs
59 it is supposed to apply to, and we have those blobs
63 Pass `--allow-binary-replacement` flag to `git-apply`
64 (see linkgit:git-apply[1]).
66 --whitespace=<option>::
67 This flag is passed to the `git-apply` (see linkgit:git-apply[1])
72 These flags are passed to the `git-apply` (see linkgit:git-apply[1])
80 Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
81 restarting an aborted patch.
84 After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
85 conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
86 the index file stores the result of the application.
87 Make a commit using the authorship and commit log
88 extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
92 When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed
93 to the screen before exiting. This overrides the
94 standard message informing you to use `--resolved`
95 or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely
96 for internal use between `git-rebase` and `git-am`.
101 The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
102 message, and commit author time is taken from the "Date: " line
103 of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of
104 the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
105 It is supposed to describe what the commit is about concisely as
108 The body of the message (iow, after a blank line that terminates
109 RFC2822 headers) can begin with "Subject: " and "From: " lines
110 that are different from those of the mail header, to override
111 the values of these fields.
113 The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
114 "Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
115 where the patch begins. Excess whitespaces at the end of the
116 lines are automatically stripped.
118 The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
119 message. Any line that is of form:
121 * three-dashes and end-of-line, or
122 * a line that begins with "diff -", or
123 * a line that begins with "Index: "
125 is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
126 is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.
128 When initially invoking it, you give it names of the mailboxes
129 to crunch. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
130 aborts in the middle,. You can recover from this in one of two ways:
132 . skip the current patch by re-running the command with '--skip'
135 . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
136 the index file to bring it in a state that the patch should
137 have produced. Then run the command with '--resolved' option.
139 The command refuses to process new mailboxes while `.dotest`
140 directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
141 run `rm -f .dotest` before running the command with mailbox
147 linkgit:git-apply[1].
152 Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
156 Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
160 Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite