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 [(<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.
38 See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information.
42 Pass `-k` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
45 Pass `-b` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
48 With `--keep-cr`, call 'git mailsplit' (see linkgit:git-mailsplit[1])
49 with the same option, to prevent it from stripping CR at the end of
50 lines. `am.keepcr` configuration variable can be used to specify the
51 default behaviour. `--no-keep-cr` is useful to override `am.keepcr`.
55 Remove everything in body before a scissors line (see
56 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). Can be activated by default using
57 the `mailinfo.scissors` configuration variable.
60 Ignore scissors lines (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
64 Pass the `-m` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]),
65 so that the Message-ID header is added to the commit message.
66 The `am.messageid` configuration variable can be used to specify
67 the default behaviour.
70 Do not add the Message-ID header to the commit message.
71 `no-message-id` is useful to override `am.messageid`.
75 Be quiet. Only print error messages.
79 Pass `-u` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
80 The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
81 is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
82 `i18n.commitencoding` can be used to specify project's
83 preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
85 This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
86 default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this.
89 Pass `-n` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see
90 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
95 When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
96 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs
97 it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs
98 available locally. `--no-3way` can be used to override
99 am.threeWay configuration variable. For more information,
100 see am.threeWay in linkgit:git-config[1].
102 --ignore-space-change::
103 --ignore-whitespace::
104 --whitespace=<option>::
111 These flags are passed to the 'git apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1])
116 By default the command will try to detect the patch format
117 automatically. This option allows the user to bypass the automatic
118 detection and specify the patch format that the patch(es) should be
119 interpreted as. Valid formats are mbox, stgit, stgit-series and hg.
125 --committer-date-is-author-date::
126 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
127 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
128 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
129 user to lie about the committer date by using the same
130 value as the author date.
133 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
134 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
135 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
136 user to lie about the author date by using the same
137 value as the committer date.
140 Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
141 restarting an aborted patch.
144 --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
145 GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and
146 defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be
147 stuck to the option without a space.
152 After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
153 conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
154 the index file stores the result of the application.
155 Make a commit using the authorship and commit log
156 extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
160 When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed
161 to the screen before exiting. This overrides the
162 standard message informing you to use `--continue`
163 or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely
164 for internal use between 'git rebase' and 'git am'.
167 Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation.
172 The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
173 message, and commit author date is taken from the "Date: " line
174 of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of
175 the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
176 The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the
177 commit is about in one line of text.
179 "From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the respective
180 commit author name and title values taken from the headers.
182 The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
183 "Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
184 where the patch begins. Excess whitespace at the end of each
185 line is automatically stripped.
187 The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
188 message. Any line that is of the form:
190 * three-dashes and end-of-line, or
191 * a line that begins with "diff -", or
192 * a line that begins with "Index: "
194 is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
195 is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.
197 When initially invoking `git am`, you give it the names of the mailboxes
198 to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
199 aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways:
201 . skip the current patch by re-running the command with the `--skip`
204 . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
205 the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should
206 have produced. Then run the command with the `--continue` option.
208 The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current
209 operation is finished, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
210 run `git am --abort` before running the command with mailbox
213 Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the
214 current branch. This is useful if you have problems with multiple
215 commits, like running 'git am' on the wrong branch or an error in the
216 commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g.
217 errors in the "From:" lines).
221 This command can run `applypatch-msg`, `pre-applypatch`,
222 and `post-applypatch` hooks. See linkgit:githooks[5] for more
227 linkgit:git-apply[1].
231 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite