6 git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
12 'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--utf8 | --no-utf8]
13 [--3way] [--interactive]
14 [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] [--directory=<dir>]
16 [<mbox> | <Maildir>...]
17 'git am' (--skip | --resolved | --abort)
21 Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message,
22 authorship information and patches, and applies them to the
28 The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
29 supply this argument, reads from the standard input. If you supply
30 directories, they'll be treated as Maildirs.
34 Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
35 the committer identity of yourself.
39 Pass `-k` flag to 'git-mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
43 Pass `-u` flag to 'git-mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
44 The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
45 is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
46 `i18n.commitencoding` can be used to specify project's
47 preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
49 This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
50 default. You could use `--no-utf8` to override this.
53 Pass `-n` flag to 'git-mailinfo' (see
54 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
58 When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
59 3-way merge, if the patch records the identity of blobs
60 it is supposed to apply to, and we have those blobs
63 --whitespace=<option>::
68 These flags are passed to the 'git-apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1])
77 Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
78 restarting an aborted patch.
82 After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
83 conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
84 the index file stores the result of the application.
85 Make a commit using the authorship and commit log
86 extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
90 When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed
91 to the screen before exiting. This overrides the
92 standard message informing you to use `--resolved`
93 or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely
94 for internal use between 'git-rebase' and 'git-am'.
97 Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation.
102 The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
103 message, and commit author time is taken from the "Date: " line
104 of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of
105 the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
106 It is supposed to describe what the commit is about concisely as
109 The body of the message (iow, after a blank line that terminates
110 RFC2822 headers) can begin with "Subject: " and "From: " lines
111 that are different from those of the mail header, to override
112 the values of these fields.
114 The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
115 "Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
116 where the patch begins. Excess whitespaces at the end of the
117 lines are automatically stripped.
119 The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
120 message. Any line that is of form:
122 * three-dashes and end-of-line, or
123 * a line that begins with "diff -", or
124 * a line that begins with "Index: "
126 is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
127 is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.
129 When initially invoking it, you give it names of the mailboxes
130 to crunch. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
131 aborts in the middle,. You can recover from this in one of two ways:
133 . skip the current patch by re-running the command with '--skip'
136 . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
137 the index file to bring it in a state that the patch should
138 have produced. Then run the command with '--resolved' option.
140 The command refuses to process new mailboxes while `.git/rebase-apply`
141 directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
142 run `rm -f -r .git/rebase-apply` before running the command with mailbox
145 Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the
146 current branch. This is useful if you have problems with multiple
147 commits, like running 'git am' on the wrong branch or an error in the
148 commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g.
149 errors in the "From:" lines).
154 linkgit:git-apply[1].
159 Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
163 Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
167 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite