6 git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
12 'git-am' [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--utf8 | --no-utf8] [--binary] [--3way]
13 [--interactive] [--whitespace=<option>] <mbox>...
14 'git-am' [--skip | --resolved]
18 Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message,
19 authorship information and patches, and applies them to the
25 Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
26 the committer identity of yourself.
29 Instead of `.dotest` directory, use <dir> as a working
30 area to store extracted patches.
33 Pass `-k` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
36 Pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
37 The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
38 are re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
39 `i18n.commitencoding` can be used to specify project's
40 preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
42 This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
43 default. You could use `--no-utf8` to override this.
46 Do not pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see
47 gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
50 Pass `--allow-binary-replacement` flag to `git-apply`
51 (see gitlink:git-apply[1]).
54 When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
55 3-way merge, if the patch records the identity of blobs
56 it is supposed to apply to, and we have those blobs
60 Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
61 restarting an aborted patch.
63 --whitespace=<option>::
64 This flag is passed to the `git-apply` program that applies
68 Run interactively, just like git-applymbox.
71 After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
72 conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
73 the index file stores the result of the application.
74 Make a commit using the authorship and commit log
75 extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
81 When initially invoking it, you give it names of the mailboxes
82 to crunch. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
83 aborts in the middle, just like 'git-applymbox' does. You can
84 recover from this in one of two ways:
86 . skip the current one by re-running the command with '--skip'
89 . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
90 the index file to bring it in a state that the patch should
91 have produced. Then run the command with '--resolved' option.
93 The command refuses to process new mailboxes while `.dotest`
94 directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
95 run `rm -f .dotest` before running the command with mailbox
101 gitlink:git-applymbox[1], gitlink:git-applypatch[1], gitlink:git-apply[1].
106 Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
110 Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
114 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite