6 git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
12 'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--[no-]keep-cr] [--[no-]utf8]
13 [--[no-]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 [--quoted-cr=<action>]
19 [--empty=(stop|drop|keep)]
20 [(<mbox> | <Maildir>)...]
21 'git am' (--continue | --skip | --abort | --quit | --show-current-patch[=(diff|raw)] | --allow-empty)
25 Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message,
26 authorship information and patches, and applies them to the
31 (<mbox>|<Maildir>)...::
32 The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
33 supply this argument, the command reads from the standard input.
34 If you supply directories, they will be treated as Maildirs.
38 Add a `Signed-off-by` trailer to the commit message, using
39 the committer identity of yourself.
40 See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information.
44 Pass `-k` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
47 Pass `-b` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
50 With `--keep-cr`, call 'git mailsplit' (see linkgit:git-mailsplit[1])
51 with the same option, to prevent it from stripping CR at the end of
52 lines. `am.keepcr` configuration variable can be used to specify the
53 default behaviour. `--no-keep-cr` is useful to override `am.keepcr`.
57 Remove everything in body before a scissors line (see
58 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). Can be activated by default using
59 the `mailinfo.scissors` configuration variable.
62 Ignore scissors lines (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
64 --quoted-cr=<action>::
65 This flag will be passed down to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
67 --empty=(stop|drop|keep)::
68 By default, or when the option is set to 'stop', the command
69 errors out on an input e-mail message lacking a patch
70 and stops into the middle of the current am session. When this
71 option is set to 'drop', skip such an e-mail message instead.
72 When this option is set to 'keep', create an empty commit,
73 recording the contents of the e-mail message as its log.
77 Pass the `-m` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]),
78 so that the Message-ID header is added to the commit message.
79 The `am.messageid` configuration variable can be used to specify
80 the default behaviour.
83 Do not add the Message-ID header to the commit message.
84 `no-message-id` is useful to override `am.messageid`.
88 Be quiet. Only print error messages.
92 Pass `-u` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
93 The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
94 is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
95 `i18n.commitEncoding` can be used to specify project's
96 preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
98 This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
99 default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this.
102 Pass `-n` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see
103 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
108 When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
109 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs
110 it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs
111 available locally. `--no-3way` can be used to override
112 am.threeWay configuration variable. For more information,
113 see am.threeWay in linkgit:git-config[1].
115 include::rerere-options.txt[]
117 --ignore-space-change::
118 --ignore-whitespace::
119 --whitespace=<option>::
126 These flags are passed to the 'git apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1])
131 By default the command will try to detect the patch format
132 automatically. This option allows the user to bypass the automatic
133 detection and specify the patch format that the patch(es) should be
134 interpreted as. Valid formats are mbox, mboxrd,
135 stgit, stgit-series and hg.
141 --committer-date-is-author-date::
142 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
143 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
144 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
145 user to lie about the committer date by using the same
146 value as the author date.
149 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
150 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
151 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
152 user to lie about the author date by using the same
153 value as the committer date.
156 Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
157 restarting an aborted patch.
160 --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
162 GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and
163 defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be
164 stuck to the option without a space. `--no-gpg-sign` is useful to
165 countermand both `commit.gpgSign` configuration variable, and
166 earlier `--gpg-sign`.
171 After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
172 conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
173 the index file stores the result of the application.
174 Make a commit using the authorship and commit log
175 extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
179 When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed
180 to the screen before exiting. This overrides the
181 standard message informing you to use `--continue`
182 or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely
183 for internal use between 'git rebase' and 'git am'.
186 Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation.
187 Revert contents of files involved in the am operation to their
191 Abort the patching operation but keep HEAD and the index
194 --show-current-patch[=(diff|raw)]::
195 Show the message at which `git am` has stopped due to
196 conflicts. If `raw` is specified, show the raw contents of
197 the e-mail message; if `diff`, show the diff portion only.
201 After a patch failure on an input e-mail message lacking a patch,
202 create an empty commit with the contents of the e-mail message
208 The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
209 message, and commit author date is taken from the "Date: " line
210 of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of
211 the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
212 The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the
213 commit is about in one line of text.
215 "From: ", "Date: ", and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the
216 respective commit author name and title values taken from the headers.
218 The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
219 "Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
220 where the patch begins. Excess whitespace at the end of each
221 line is automatically stripped.
223 The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
224 message. Any line that is of the form:
226 * three-dashes and end-of-line, or
227 * a line that begins with "diff -", or
228 * a line that begins with "Index: "
230 is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
231 is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.
233 When initially invoking `git am`, you give it the names of the mailboxes
234 to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
235 aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways:
237 . skip the current patch by re-running the command with the `--skip`
240 . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
241 the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should
242 have produced. Then run the command with the `--continue` option.
244 The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current
245 operation is finished, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
246 run `git am --abort` before running the command with mailbox
249 Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the
250 current branch. This is useful if you have problems with multiple
251 commits, like running 'git am' on the wrong branch or an error in the
252 commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g.
253 errors in the "From:" lines).
257 This command can run `applypatch-msg`, `pre-applypatch`,
258 and `post-applypatch` hooks. See linkgit:githooks[5] for more
264 include::includes/cmd-config-section-all.txt[]
266 include::config/am.txt[]
270 linkgit:git-apply[1].
274 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite