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.
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]).
94 When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
95 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs
96 it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs
97 available locally. `--no-3way` can be used to override
98 am.threeWay configuration variable. For more information,
99 see am.threeWay in linkgit:git-config[1].
101 --ignore-space-change::
102 --ignore-whitespace::
103 --whitespace=<option>::
110 These flags are passed to the 'git apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1])
115 By default the command will try to detect the patch format
116 automatically. This option allows the user to bypass the automatic
117 detection and specify the patch format that the patch(es) should be
118 interpreted as. Valid formats are mbox, stgit, stgit-series and hg.
124 --committer-date-is-author-date::
125 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
126 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
127 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
128 user to lie about the committer date by using the same
129 value as the author date.
132 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
133 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
134 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
135 user to lie about the author date by using the same
136 value as the committer date.
139 Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
140 restarting an aborted patch.
143 --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
149 After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
150 conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
151 the index file stores the result of the application.
152 Make a commit using the authorship and commit log
153 extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
157 When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed
158 to the screen before exiting. This overrides the
159 standard message informing you to use `--continue`
160 or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely
161 for internal use between 'git rebase' and 'git am'.
164 Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation.
169 The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
170 message, and commit author date is taken from the "Date: " line
171 of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of
172 the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
173 The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the
174 commit is about in one line of text.
176 "From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the respective
177 commit author name and title values taken from the headers.
179 The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
180 "Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
181 where the patch begins. Excess whitespace at the end of each
182 line is automatically stripped.
184 The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
185 message. Any line that is of the form:
187 * three-dashes and end-of-line, or
188 * a line that begins with "diff -", or
189 * a line that begins with "Index: "
191 is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
192 is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.
194 When initially invoking `git am`, you give it the names of the mailboxes
195 to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
196 aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways:
198 . skip the current patch by re-running the command with the '--skip'
201 . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
202 the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should
203 have produced. Then run the command with the '--continue' option.
205 The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current
206 operation is finished, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
207 run `git am --abort` before running the command with mailbox
210 Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the
211 current branch. This is useful if you have problems with multiple
212 commits, like running 'git am' on the wrong branch or an error in the
213 commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g.
214 errors in the "From:" lines).
218 This command can run `applypatch-msg`, `pre-applypatch`,
219 and `post-applypatch` hooks. See linkgit:githooks[5] for more
224 linkgit:git-apply[1].
228 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite