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