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>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>]
15 'git-am' [--skip | --resolved]
19 Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message,
20 authorship information and patches, and applies them to the
26 The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
27 supply this argument, reads from the standard input.
30 Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
31 the committer identity of yourself.
34 Instead of `.dotest` directory, use <dir> as a working
35 area to store extracted patches.
38 Pass `-k` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
41 Pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
42 The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
43 are re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
44 `i18n.commitencoding` can be used to specify project's
45 preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
47 This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
48 default. You could use `--no-utf8` to override this.
51 Do not pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see
52 gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
55 Pass `--allow-binary-replacement` flag to `git-apply`
56 (see gitlink:git-apply[1]).
59 When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
60 3-way merge, if the patch records the identity of blobs
61 it is supposed to apply to, and we have those blobs
65 Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
66 restarting an aborted patch.
68 --whitespace=<option>::
69 This flag is passed to the `git-apply` program that applies
73 These flag are passed to the `git-apply` program that applies
77 Run interactively, just like git-applymbox.
80 After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
81 conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
82 the index file stores the result of the application.
83 Make a commit using the authorship and commit log
84 extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
90 When initially invoking it, you give it names of the mailboxes
91 to crunch. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
92 aborts in the middle, just like 'git-applymbox' does. You can
93 recover from this in one of two ways:
95 . skip the current one by re-running the command with '--skip'
98 . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
99 the index file to bring it in a state that the patch should
100 have produced. Then run the command with '--resolved' option.
102 The command refuses to process new mailboxes while `.dotest`
103 directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
104 run `rm -f .dotest` before running the command with mailbox
110 gitlink:git-applymbox[1], gitlink:git-applypatch[1], gitlink:git-apply[1].
115 Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
119 Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
123 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite