6 git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
12 'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--keep-cr | --no-keep-cr] [--utf8 | --no-utf8]
13 [--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 [--reject] [-q | --quiet] [--scissors | --no-scissors]
17 [<mbox> | <Maildir>...]
18 'git am' (--continue | --skip | --abort)
22 Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message,
23 authorship information and patches, and applies them to the
29 The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
30 supply this argument, the command reads from the standard input.
31 If you supply directories, they will be treated as Maildirs.
35 Add a `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
36 the committer identity of yourself.
40 Pass `-k` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
44 With `--keep-cr`, call 'git mailsplit' (see linkgit:git-mailsplit[1])
45 with the same option, to prevent it from stripping CR at the end of
46 lines. `am.keepcr` configuration variable can be used to specify the
47 default behaviour. `--no-keep-cr` is useful to override `am.keepcr`.
51 Remove everything in body before a scissors line (see
52 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
55 Ignore scissors lines (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
59 Be quiet. Only print error messages.
63 Pass `-u` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
64 The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
65 is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
66 `i18n.commitencoding` can be used to specify project's
67 preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
69 This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
70 default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this.
73 Pass `-n` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see
74 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
78 When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
79 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs
80 it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs
84 --ignore-space-change::
86 --whitespace=<option>::
91 These flags are passed to the 'git apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1])
99 --committer-date-is-author-date::
100 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
101 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
102 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
103 user to lie about the committer date by using the same
104 value as the author date.
107 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
108 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
109 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
110 user to lie about the author date by using the same
111 value as the committer date.
114 Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
115 restarting an aborted patch.
120 After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
121 conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
122 the index file stores the result of the application.
123 Make a commit using the authorship and commit log
124 extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
128 When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed
129 to the screen before exiting. This overrides the
130 standard message informing you to use `--resolved`
131 or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely
132 for internal use between 'git rebase' and 'git am'.
135 Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation.
140 The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
141 message, and commit author date is taken from the "Date: " line
142 of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of
143 the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
144 The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the
145 commit is about in one line of text.
147 "From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the respective
148 commit author name and title values taken from the headers.
150 The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
151 "Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
152 where the patch begins. Excess whitespace at the end of each
153 line is automatically stripped.
155 The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
156 message. Any line that is of the form:
158 * three-dashes and end-of-line, or
159 * a line that begins with "diff -", or
160 * a line that begins with "Index: "
162 is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
163 is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.
165 When initially invoking `git am`, you give it the names of the mailboxes
166 to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
167 aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways:
169 . skip the current patch by re-running the command with the '--skip'
172 . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
173 the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should
174 have produced. Then run the command with the '--resolved' option.
176 The command refuses to process new mailboxes while the `.git/rebase-apply`
177 directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
178 run `rm -f -r .git/rebase-apply` before running the command with mailbox
181 Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the
182 current branch. This is useful if you have problems with multiple
183 commits, like running 'git am' on the wrong branch or an error in the
184 commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g.
185 errors in the "From:" lines).
190 linkgit:git-apply[1].
195 Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
199 Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
203 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite