6 git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
12 'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--[no-]keep-cr] [--[no-]utf8]
13 [--3way] [--interactive] [--committer-date-is-author-date]
14 [--ignore-date] [--ignore-space-change | --ignore-whitespace]
15 [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] [--directory=<dir>]
16 [--exclude=<path>] [--include=<path>] [--reject] [-q | --quiet]
17 [--[no-]scissors] [-S[<keyid>]] [--patch-format=<format>]
18 [(<mbox> | <Maildir>)...]
19 'git am' (--continue | --skip | --abort)
23 Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message,
24 authorship information and patches, and applies them to the
29 (<mbox>|<Maildir>)...::
30 The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
31 supply this argument, the command reads from the standard input.
32 If you supply directories, they will be treated as Maildirs.
36 Add a `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
37 the committer identity of yourself.
41 Pass `-k` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
44 Pass `-b` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
47 With `--keep-cr`, call 'git mailsplit' (see linkgit:git-mailsplit[1])
48 with the same option, to prevent it from stripping CR at the end of
49 lines. `am.keepcr` configuration variable can be used to specify the
50 default behaviour. `--no-keep-cr` is useful to override `am.keepcr`.
54 Remove everything in body before a scissors line (see
55 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
58 Ignore scissors lines (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
62 Pass the `-m` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]),
63 so that the Message-ID header is added to the commit message.
64 The `am.messageid` configuration variable can be used to specify
65 the default behaviour.
68 Do not add the Message-ID header to the commit message.
69 `no-message-id` is useful to override `am.messageid`.
73 Be quiet. Only print error messages.
77 Pass `-u` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
78 The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
79 is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
80 `i18n.commitencoding` can be used to specify project's
81 preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
83 This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
84 default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this.
87 Pass `-n` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see
88 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
92 When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
93 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs
94 it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs
97 --ignore-space-change::
99 --whitespace=<option>::
106 These flags are passed to the 'git apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1])
111 By default the command will try to detect the patch format
112 automatically. This option allows the user to bypass the automatic
113 detection and specify the patch format that the patch(es) should be
114 interpreted as. Valid formats are mbox, stgit, stgit-series and hg.
120 --committer-date-is-author-date::
121 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
122 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
123 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
124 user to lie about the committer date by using the same
125 value as the author date.
128 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
129 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
130 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
131 user to lie about the author date by using the same
132 value as the committer date.
135 Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
136 restarting an aborted patch.
139 --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
145 After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
146 conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
147 the index file stores the result of the application.
148 Make a commit using the authorship and commit log
149 extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
153 When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed
154 to the screen before exiting. This overrides the
155 standard message informing you to use `--continue`
156 or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely
157 for internal use between 'git rebase' and 'git am'.
160 Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation.
165 The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
166 message, and commit author date is taken from the "Date: " line
167 of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of
168 the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
169 The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the
170 commit is about in one line of text.
172 "From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the respective
173 commit author name and title values taken from the headers.
175 The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
176 "Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
177 where the patch begins. Excess whitespace at the end of each
178 line is automatically stripped.
180 The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
181 message. Any line that is of the form:
183 * three-dashes and end-of-line, or
184 * a line that begins with "diff -", or
185 * a line that begins with "Index: "
187 is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
188 is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.
190 When initially invoking `git am`, you give it the names of the mailboxes
191 to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
192 aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways:
194 . skip the current patch by re-running the command with the '--skip'
197 . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
198 the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should
199 have produced. Then run the command with the '--continue' option.
201 The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current
202 operation is finished, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
203 run `git am --abort` before running the command with mailbox
206 Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the
207 current branch. This is useful if you have problems with multiple
208 commits, like running 'git am' on the wrong branch or an error in the
209 commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g.
210 errors in the "From:" lines).
214 This command can run `applypatch-msg`, `pre-applypatch`,
215 and `post-applypatch` hooks. See linkgit:githooks[5] for more
220 linkgit:git-apply[1].
224 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite