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 [(<mbox> | <Maildir>)...]
20 'git am' (--continue | --skip | --abort | --quit | --show-current-patch[=(diff|raw)])
24 Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message,
25 authorship information and patches, and applies them to the
30 (<mbox>|<Maildir>)...::
31 The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
32 supply this argument, the command reads from the standard input.
33 If you supply directories, they will be treated as Maildirs.
37 Add a `Signed-off-by` trailer to the commit message, using
38 the committer identity of yourself.
39 See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information.
43 Pass `-k` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
46 Pass `-b` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
49 With `--keep-cr`, call 'git mailsplit' (see linkgit:git-mailsplit[1])
50 with the same option, to prevent it from stripping CR at the end of
51 lines. `am.keepcr` configuration variable can be used to specify the
52 default behaviour. `--no-keep-cr` is useful to override `am.keepcr`.
56 Remove everything in body before a scissors line (see
57 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). Can be activated by default using
58 the `mailinfo.scissors` configuration variable.
61 Ignore scissors lines (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
63 --quoted-cr=<action>::
64 This flag will be passed down to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
68 Pass the `-m` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]),
69 so that the Message-ID header is added to the commit message.
70 The `am.messageid` configuration variable can be used to specify
71 the default behaviour.
74 Do not add the Message-ID header to the commit message.
75 `no-message-id` is useful to override `am.messageid`.
79 Be quiet. Only print error messages.
83 Pass `-u` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
84 The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
85 is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
86 `i18n.commitEncoding` can be used to specify project's
87 preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
89 This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
90 default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this.
93 Pass `-n` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see
94 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
99 When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
100 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs
101 it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs
102 available locally. `--no-3way` can be used to override
103 am.threeWay configuration variable. For more information,
104 see am.threeWay in linkgit:git-config[1].
106 --rerere-autoupdate::
107 --no-rerere-autoupdate::
108 Allow the rerere mechanism to update the index with the
109 result of auto-conflict resolution if possible.
111 --ignore-space-change::
112 --ignore-whitespace::
113 --whitespace=<option>::
120 These flags are passed to the 'git apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1])
125 By default the command will try to detect the patch format
126 automatically. This option allows the user to bypass the automatic
127 detection and specify the patch format that the patch(es) should be
128 interpreted as. Valid formats are mbox, mboxrd,
129 stgit, stgit-series and hg.
135 --committer-date-is-author-date::
136 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
137 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
138 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
139 user to lie about the committer date by using the same
140 value as the author date.
143 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
144 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
145 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
146 user to lie about the author date by using the same
147 value as the committer date.
150 Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
151 restarting an aborted patch.
154 --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
156 GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and
157 defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be
158 stuck to the option without a space. `--no-gpg-sign` is useful to
159 countermand both `commit.gpgSign` configuration variable, and
160 earlier `--gpg-sign`.
165 After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
166 conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
167 the index file stores the result of the application.
168 Make a commit using the authorship and commit log
169 extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
173 When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed
174 to the screen before exiting. This overrides the
175 standard message informing you to use `--continue`
176 or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely
177 for internal use between 'git rebase' and 'git am'.
180 Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation.
183 Abort the patching operation but keep HEAD and the index
186 --show-current-patch[=(diff|raw)]::
187 Show the message at which `git am` has stopped due to
188 conflicts. If `raw` is specified, show the raw contents of
189 the e-mail message; if `diff`, show the diff portion only.
195 The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
196 message, and commit author date is taken from the "Date: " line
197 of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of
198 the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
199 The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the
200 commit is about in one line of text.
202 "From: ", "Date: ", and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the
203 respective commit author name and title values taken from the headers.
205 The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
206 "Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
207 where the patch begins. Excess whitespace at the end of each
208 line is automatically stripped.
210 The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
211 message. Any line that is of the form:
213 * three-dashes and end-of-line, or
214 * a line that begins with "diff -", or
215 * a line that begins with "Index: "
217 is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
218 is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.
220 When initially invoking `git am`, you give it the names of the mailboxes
221 to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
222 aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways:
224 . skip the current patch by re-running the command with the `--skip`
227 . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
228 the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should
229 have produced. Then run the command with the `--continue` option.
231 The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current
232 operation is finished, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
233 run `git am --abort` before running the command with mailbox
236 Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the
237 current branch. This is useful if you have problems with multiple
238 commits, like running 'git am' on the wrong branch or an error in the
239 commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g.
240 errors in the "From:" lines).
244 This command can run `applypatch-msg`, `pre-applypatch`,
245 and `post-applypatch` hooks. See linkgit:githooks[5] for more
250 linkgit:git-apply[1].
254 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite