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 571 <div id="header">
 572 <h1>
 573 git-am(1) Manual Page
 574 </h1>
 575 <h2>NAME</h2>
 576 <div class="sectionbody">
 577 <p>git-am -
 578    Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
 579 </p>
 580 </div>
 581 </div>
 582 <div id="content">
 583 <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
 584 <div class="sectionbody">
 585 <div class="verseblock">
 586 <div class="verseblock-content"><em>git am</em> [--signoff] [--keep] [--keep-cr | --no-keep-cr] [--utf8 | --no-utf8]
 587          [--3way] [--interactive] [--committer-date-is-author-date]
 588          [--ignore-date] [--ignore-space-change | --ignore-whitespace]
 589          [--whitespace=&lt;option&gt;] [-C&lt;n&gt;] [-p&lt;n&gt;] [--directory=&lt;dir&gt;]
 590          [--exclude=&lt;path&gt;] [--reject] [-q | --quiet]
 591          [--scissors | --no-scissors]
 592          [(&lt;mbox&gt; | &lt;Maildir&gt;)&#8230;]
 593 <em>git am</em> (--continue | --skip | --abort)</div>
 594 <div class="verseblock-attribution">
 595 </div></div>
 596 </div>
 597 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
 598 <div class="sectionbody">
 599 <div class="paragraph"><p>Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message,
 600 authorship information and patches, and applies them to the
 601 current branch.</p></div>
 602 </div>
 603 <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
 604 <div class="sectionbody">
 605 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 606 <dt class="hdlist1">
 607 (&lt;mbox&gt;|&lt;Maildir&gt;)&#8230;
 608 </dt>
 609 <dd>
 610 <p>
 611         The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
 612         supply this argument, the command reads from the standard input.
 613         If you supply directories, they will be treated as Maildirs.
 614 </p>
 615 </dd>
 616 <dt class="hdlist1">
 617 -s
 618 </dt>
 619 <dt class="hdlist1">
 620 --signoff
 621 </dt>
 622 <dd>
 623 <p>
 624         Add a <tt>Signed-off-by:</tt> line to the commit message, using
 625         the committer identity of yourself.
 626 </p>
 627 </dd>
 628 <dt class="hdlist1">
 629 -k
 630 </dt>
 631 <dt class="hdlist1">
 632 --keep
 633 </dt>
 634 <dd>
 635 <p>
 636         Pass <tt>-k</tt> flag to <em>git mailinfo</em> (see <a href="git-mailinfo.html">git-mailinfo(1)</a>).
 637 </p>
 638 </dd>
 639 <dt class="hdlist1">
 640 --keep-cr
 641 </dt>
 642 <dt class="hdlist1">
 643 --no-keep-cr
 644 </dt>
 645 <dd>
 646 <p>
 647         With <tt>--keep-cr</tt>, call <em>git mailsplit</em> (see <a href="git-mailsplit.html">git-mailsplit(1)</a>)
 648         with the same option, to prevent it from stripping CR at the end of
 649         lines. <tt>am.keepcr</tt> configuration variable can be used to specify the
 650         default behaviour.  <tt>--no-keep-cr</tt> is useful to override <tt>am.keepcr</tt>.
 651 </p>
 652 </dd>
 653 <dt class="hdlist1">
 654 -c
 655 </dt>
 656 <dt class="hdlist1">
 657 --scissors
 658 </dt>
 659 <dd>
 660 <p>
 661         Remove everything in body before a scissors line (see
 662         <a href="git-mailinfo.html">git-mailinfo(1)</a>).
 663 </p>
 664 </dd>
 665 <dt class="hdlist1">
 666 --no-scissors
 667 </dt>
 668 <dd>
 669 <p>
 670         Ignore scissors lines (see <a href="git-mailinfo.html">git-mailinfo(1)</a>).
 671 </p>
 672 </dd>
 673 <dt class="hdlist1">
 674 -q
 675 </dt>
 676 <dt class="hdlist1">
 677 --quiet
 678 </dt>
 679 <dd>
 680 <p>
 681         Be quiet. Only print error messages.
 682 </p>
 683 </dd>
 684 <dt class="hdlist1">
 685 -u
 686 </dt>
 687 <dt class="hdlist1">
 688 --utf8
 689 </dt>
 690 <dd>
 691 <p>
 692         Pass <tt>-u</tt> flag to <em>git mailinfo</em> (see <a href="git-mailinfo.html">git-mailinfo(1)</a>).
 693         The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
 694         is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
 695         <tt>i18n.commitencoding</tt> can be used to specify project&#8217;s
 696         preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
 697 </p>
 698 <div class="paragraph"><p>This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
 699 default.   You can use <tt>--no-utf8</tt> to override this.</p></div>
 700 </dd>
 701 <dt class="hdlist1">
 702 --no-utf8
 703 </dt>
 704 <dd>
 705 <p>
 706         Pass <tt>-n</tt> flag to <em>git mailinfo</em> (see
 707         <a href="git-mailinfo.html">git-mailinfo(1)</a>).
 708 </p>
 709 </dd>
 710 <dt class="hdlist1">
 711 -3
 712 </dt>
 713 <dt class="hdlist1">
 714 --3way
 715 </dt>
 716 <dd>
 717 <p>
 718         When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
 719         3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs
 720         it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs
 721         available locally.
 722 </p>
 723 </dd>
 724 <dt class="hdlist1">
 725 --ignore-date
 726 </dt>
 727 <dt class="hdlist1">
 728 --ignore-space-change
 729 </dt>
 730 <dt class="hdlist1">
 731 --ignore-whitespace
 732 </dt>
 733 <dt class="hdlist1">
 734 --whitespace=&lt;option&gt;
 735 </dt>
 736 <dt class="hdlist1">
 737 -C&lt;n&gt;
 738 </dt>
 739 <dt class="hdlist1">
 740 -p&lt;n&gt;
 741 </dt>
 742 <dt class="hdlist1">
 743 --directory=&lt;dir&gt;
 744 </dt>
 745 <dt class="hdlist1">
 746 --exclude=&lt;path&gt;
 747 </dt>
 748 <dt class="hdlist1">
 749 --reject
 750 </dt>
 751 <dd>
 752 <p>
 753         These flags are passed to the <em>git apply</em> (see <a href="git-apply.html">git-apply(1)</a>)
 754         program that applies
 755         the patch.
 756 </p>
 757 </dd>
 758 <dt class="hdlist1">
 759 -i
 760 </dt>
 761 <dt class="hdlist1">
 762 --interactive
 763 </dt>
 764 <dd>
 765 <p>
 766         Run interactively.
 767 </p>
 768 </dd>
 769 <dt class="hdlist1">
 770 --committer-date-is-author-date
 771 </dt>
 772 <dd>
 773 <p>
 774         By default the command records the date from the e-mail
 775         message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
 776         commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
 777         user to lie about the committer date by using the same
 778         value as the author date.
 779 </p>
 780 </dd>
 781 <dt class="hdlist1">
 782 --ignore-date
 783 </dt>
 784 <dd>
 785 <p>
 786         By default the command records the date from the e-mail
 787         message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
 788         commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
 789         user to lie about the author date by using the same
 790         value as the committer date.
 791 </p>
 792 </dd>
 793 <dt class="hdlist1">
 794 --skip
 795 </dt>
 796 <dd>
 797 <p>
 798         Skip the current patch.  This is only meaningful when
 799         restarting an aborted patch.
 800 </p>
 801 </dd>
 802 <dt class="hdlist1">
 803 --continue
 804 </dt>
 805 <dt class="hdlist1">
 806 -r
 807 </dt>
 808 <dt class="hdlist1">
 809 --resolved
 810 </dt>
 811 <dd>
 812 <p>
 813         After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
 814         conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
 815         the index file stores the result of the application.
 816         Make a commit using the authorship and commit log
 817         extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
 818         file, and continue.
 819 </p>
 820 </dd>
 821 <dt class="hdlist1">
 822 --resolvemsg=&lt;msg&gt;
 823 </dt>
 824 <dd>
 825 <p>
 826         When a patch failure occurs, &lt;msg&gt; will be printed
 827         to the screen before exiting.  This overrides the
 828         standard message informing you to use <tt>--resolved</tt>
 829         or <tt>--skip</tt> to handle the failure.  This is solely
 830         for internal use between <em>git rebase</em> and <em>git am</em>.
 831 </p>
 832 </dd>
 833 <dt class="hdlist1">
 834 --abort
 835 </dt>
 836 <dd>
 837 <p>
 838         Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation.
 839 </p>
 840 </dd>
 841 </dl></div>
 842 </div>
 843 <h2 id="_discussion">DISCUSSION</h2>
 844 <div class="sectionbody">
 845 <div class="paragraph"><p>The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
 846 message, and commit author date is taken from the "Date: " line
 847 of the message.  The "Subject: " line is used as the title of
 848 the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH &lt;anything&gt;]".
 849 The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the
 850 commit is about in one line of text.</p></div>
 851 <div class="paragraph"><p>"From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the respective
 852 commit author name and title values taken from the headers.</p></div>
 853 <div class="paragraph"><p>The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
 854 "Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
 855 where the patch begins.  Excess whitespace at the end of each
 856 line is automatically stripped.</p></div>
 857 <div class="paragraph"><p>The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
 858 message.  Any line that is of the form:</p></div>
 859 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 860 <li>
 861 <p>
 862 three-dashes and end-of-line, or
 863 </p>
 864 </li>
 865 <li>
 866 <p>
 867 a line that begins with "diff -", or
 868 </p>
 869 </li>
 870 <li>
 871 <p>
 872 a line that begins with "Index: "
 873 </p>
 874 </li>
 875 </ul></div>
 876 <div class="paragraph"><p>is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
 877 is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.</p></div>
 878 <div class="paragraph"><p>When initially invoking <tt>git am</tt>, you give it the names of the mailboxes
 879 to process.  Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
 880 aborts in the middle.  You can recover from this in one of two ways:</p></div>
 881 <div class="olist arabic"><ol class="arabic">
 882 <li>
 883 <p>
 884 skip the current patch by re-running the command with the <em>--skip</em>
 885   option.
 886 </p>
 887 </li>
 888 <li>
 889 <p>
 890 hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
 891   the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should
 892   have produced.  Then run the command with the <em>--resolved</em> option.
 893 </p>
 894 </li>
 895 </ol></div>
 896 <div class="paragraph"><p>The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current
 897 operation is finished, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
 898 run <tt>git am --abort</tt> before running the command with mailbox
 899 names.</p></div>
 900 <div class="paragraph"><p>Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the
 901 current branch.  This is useful if you have problems with multiple
 902 commits, like running <em>git am</em> on the wrong branch or an error in the
 903 commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g.
 904 errors in the "From:" lines).</p></div>
 905 </div>
 906 <h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2>
 907 <div class="sectionbody">
 908 <div class="paragraph"><p><a href="git-apply.html">git-apply(1)</a>.</p></div>
 909 </div>
 910 <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
 911 <div class="sectionbody">
 912 <div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
 913 </div>
 914 </div>
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