6 git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
12 'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--[no-]keep-cr] [--[no-]utf8]
13 [--[no-]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.
38 See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information.
42 Pass `-k` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
45 Pass `-b` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
48 With `--keep-cr`, call 'git mailsplit' (see linkgit:git-mailsplit[1])
49 with the same option, to prevent it from stripping CR at the end of
50 lines. `am.keepcr` configuration variable can be used to specify the
51 default behaviour. `--no-keep-cr` is useful to override `am.keepcr`.
55 Remove everything in body before a scissors line (see
56 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). Can be activated by default using
57 the `mailinfo.scissors` configuration variable.
60 Ignore scissors lines (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
64 Pass the `-m` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]),
65 so that the Message-ID header is added to the commit message.
66 The `am.messageid` configuration variable can be used to specify
67 the default behaviour.
70 Do not add the Message-ID header to the commit message.
71 `no-message-id` is useful to override `am.messageid`.
75 Be quiet. Only print error messages.
79 Pass `-u` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
80 The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
81 is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
82 `i18n.commitencoding` can be used to specify project's
83 preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
85 This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
86 default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this.
89 Pass `-n` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see
90 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
95 When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
96 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs
97 it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs
98 available locally. `--no-3way` can be used to override
99 am.threeWay configuration variable. For more information,
100 see am.threeWay in linkgit:git-config[1].
102 --ignore-space-change::
103 --ignore-whitespace::
104 --whitespace=<option>::
111 These flags are passed to the 'git apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1])
116 By default the command will try to detect the patch format
117 automatically. This option allows the user to bypass the automatic
118 detection and specify the patch format that the patch(es) should be
119 interpreted as. Valid formats are mbox, mboxrd,
120 stgit, stgit-series and hg.
126 --committer-date-is-author-date::
127 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
128 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
129 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
130 user to lie about the committer date by using the same
131 value as the author date.
134 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
135 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
136 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
137 user to lie about the author date by using the same
138 value as the committer date.
141 Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
142 restarting an aborted patch.
145 --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
146 GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and
147 defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be
148 stuck to the option without a space.
153 After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
154 conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
155 the index file stores the result of the application.
156 Make a commit using the authorship and commit log
157 extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
161 When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed
162 to the screen before exiting. This overrides the
163 standard message informing you to use `--continue`
164 or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely
165 for internal use between 'git rebase' and 'git am'.
168 Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation.
173 The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
174 message, and commit author date is taken from the "Date: " line
175 of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of
176 the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
177 The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the
178 commit is about in one line of text.
180 "From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the respective
181 commit author name and title values taken from the headers.
183 The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
184 "Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
185 where the patch begins. Excess whitespace at the end of each
186 line is automatically stripped.
188 The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
189 message. Any line that is of the form:
191 * three-dashes and end-of-line, or
192 * a line that begins with "diff -", or
193 * a line that begins with "Index: "
195 is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
196 is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.
198 When initially invoking `git am`, you give it the names of the mailboxes
199 to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
200 aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways:
202 . skip the current patch by re-running the command with the `--skip`
205 . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
206 the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should
207 have produced. Then run the command with the `--continue` option.
209 The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current
210 operation is finished, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
211 run `git am --abort` before running the command with mailbox
214 Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the
215 current branch. This is useful if you have problems with multiple
216 commits, like running 'git am' on the wrong branch or an error in the
217 commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g.
218 errors in the "From:" lines).
222 This command can run `applypatch-msg`, `pre-applypatch`,
223 and `post-applypatch` hooks. See linkgit:githooks[5] for more
228 linkgit:git-apply[1].
232 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite