6 git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
12 'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--utf8 | --no-utf8]
13 [--3way] [--interactive] [--committer-date-is-author-date]
15 [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] [--directory=<dir>]
16 [--reject] [-q | --quiet]
17 [<mbox> | <Maildir>...]
18 'git am' (--skip | --resolved | --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 Be quiet. Only print error messages.
48 Pass `-u` flag to 'git-mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
49 The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
50 is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
51 `i18n.commitencoding` can be used to specify project's
52 preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
54 This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
55 default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this.
58 Pass `-n` flag to 'git-mailinfo' (see
59 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
63 When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
64 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs
65 it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs
68 --whitespace=<option>::
73 These flags are passed to the 'git-apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1])
81 --committer-date-is-author-date::
82 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
83 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
84 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
85 user to lie about the committer date by using the same
86 value as the author date.
89 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
90 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
91 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
92 user to lie about the author date by using the same
93 value as the committer date.
96 Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
97 restarting an aborted patch.
101 After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
102 conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
103 the index file stores the result of the application.
104 Make a commit using the authorship and commit log
105 extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
109 When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed
110 to the screen before exiting. This overrides the
111 standard message informing you to use `--resolved`
112 or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely
113 for internal use between 'git-rebase' and 'git-am'.
116 Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation.
121 The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
122 message, and commit author date is taken from the "Date: " line
123 of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of
124 the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
125 The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the
126 commit is about in one line of text.
128 "From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body (the rest of the
129 message after the blank line terminating the RFC2822 headers)
130 override the respective commit author name and title values taken
133 The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
134 "Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
135 where the patch begins. Excess whitespace at the end of each
136 line is automatically stripped.
138 The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
139 message. Any line that is of the form:
141 * three-dashes and end-of-line, or
142 * a line that begins with "diff -", or
143 * a line that begins with "Index: "
145 is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
146 is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.
148 When initially invoking `git am`, you give it the names of the mailboxes
149 to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
150 aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways:
152 . skip the current patch by re-running the command with the '--skip'
155 . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
156 the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should
157 have produced. Then run the command with the '--resolved' option.
159 The command refuses to process new mailboxes while the `.git/rebase-apply`
160 directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
161 run `rm -f -r .git/rebase-apply` before running the command with mailbox
164 Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the
165 current branch. This is useful if you have problems with multiple
166 commits, like running 'git am' on the wrong branch or an error in the
167 commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g.
168 errors in the "From:" lines).
173 linkgit:git-apply[1].
178 Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
182 Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
186 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite