6 git-applymbox - Apply a series of patches in a mailbox
11 'git-applymbox' [-u] [-k] [-q] ( -c .dotest/<num> | <mbox> ) [ <signoff> ]
15 Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message,
16 authorship information and patches, and applies them to the
23 Apply patches interactively. The user will be given
24 opportunity to edit the log message and the patch before
25 attempting to apply patch in each e-mail message.
28 Usually the program 'cleans up' the Subject: header line
29 to extract the title line for the commit log message,
30 among which (1) remove 'Re:' or 're:', (2) leading
31 whitespaces, (3) '[' up to ']', typically '[PATCH]', and
32 then prepends "[PATCH] ". This flag forbids this
33 munging, and is most useful when used to read back 'git
34 format-patch --mbox' output.
37 By default, the commit log message, author name and
38 author email are taken from the e-mail without any
39 charset conversion, after minimally decoding MIME
40 transfer encoding. This flag causes the resulting
41 commit to be encoded in utf-8 by transliterating them.
42 Note that the patch is always used as is without charset
43 conversion, even with this flag.
46 When the patch contained in an e-mail does not cleanly
47 apply, the command exits with an error message. The
48 patch and extracted message are found in .dotest/, and
49 you could re-run 'git applymbox' with '-c .dotest/<num>'
50 flag to restart the process after inspecting and fixing
54 The name of the file that contains the e-mail messages
55 with patches. This file should be in the UNIX mailbox
56 format. See 'SubmittingPatches' document to learn about
57 the formatting convention for e-mail submission.
60 The name of the file that contains your "Signed-off-by"
61 line. See 'SubmittingPatches' document to learn what
62 "Signed-off-by" line means. You can also just say
63 'yes', 'true', 'me', or 'please' to use an automatically
64 generated "Signed-off-by" line based on your committer
70 link:git-applypatch.html[git-applypatch].
75 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
79 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
83 Part of the link:git.html[git] suite