6 git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
12 'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--keep-cr | --no-keep-cr] [--utf8 | --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 [--reject] [-q | --quiet] [--scissors | --no-scissors]
17 [(<mbox> | <Maildir>)...]
18 'git am' (--continue | --skip | --abort)
22 Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message,
23 authorship information and patches, and applies them to the
28 (<mbox>|<Maildir>)...::
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]).
43 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 Be quiet. Only print error messages.
66 Pass `-u` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
67 The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
68 is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
69 `i18n.commitencoding` can be used to specify project's
70 preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
72 This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
73 default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this.
76 Pass `-n` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see
77 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
81 When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
82 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs
83 it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs
87 --ignore-space-change::
89 --whitespace=<option>::
94 These flags are passed to the 'git apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1])
102 --committer-date-is-author-date::
103 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
104 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
105 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
106 user to lie about the committer date by using the same
107 value as the author date.
110 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
111 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
112 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
113 user to lie about the author date by using the same
114 value as the committer date.
117 Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
118 restarting an aborted patch.
123 After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
124 conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
125 the index file stores the result of the application.
126 Make a commit using the authorship and commit log
127 extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
131 When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed
132 to the screen before exiting. This overrides the
133 standard message informing you to use `--resolved`
134 or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely
135 for internal use between 'git rebase' and 'git am'.
138 Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation.
143 The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
144 message, and commit author date is taken from the "Date: " line
145 of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of
146 the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
147 The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the
148 commit is about in one line of text.
150 "From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the respective
151 commit author name and title values taken from the headers.
153 The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
154 "Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
155 where the patch begins. Excess whitespace at the end of each
156 line is automatically stripped.
158 The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
159 message. Any line that is of the form:
161 * three-dashes and end-of-line, or
162 * a line that begins with "diff -", or
163 * a line that begins with "Index: "
165 is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
166 is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.
168 When initially invoking `git am`, you give it the names of the mailboxes
169 to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
170 aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways:
172 . skip the current patch by re-running the command with the '--skip'
175 . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
176 the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should
177 have produced. Then run the command with the '--resolved' option.
179 The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current
180 operation is finished, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
181 run `git am --abort` before running the command with mailbox
184 Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the
185 current branch. This is useful if you have problems with multiple
186 commits, like running 'git am' on the wrong branch or an error in the
187 commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g.
188 errors in the "From:" lines).
193 linkgit:git-apply[1].
197 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite