6 git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
12 'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--utf8 | --no-utf8]
13 [--3way] [--interactive]
14 [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>]
15 [<mbox> | <Maildir>...]
16 'git am' (--skip | --resolved | --abort)
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
62 --whitespace=<option>::
63 This flag is passed to the 'git-apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1])
69 These flags are passed to the 'git-apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1])
78 Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
79 restarting an aborted patch.
83 After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
84 conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
85 the index file stores the result of the application.
86 Make a commit using the authorship and commit log
87 extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
91 When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed
92 to the screen before exiting. This overrides the
93 standard message informing you to use `--resolved`
94 or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely
95 for internal use between 'git-rebase' and 'git-am'.
98 Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation.
103 The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
104 message, and commit author time is taken from the "Date: " line
105 of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of
106 the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
107 It is supposed to describe what the commit is about concisely as
110 The body of the message (iow, after a blank line that terminates
111 RFC2822 headers) can begin with "Subject: " and "From: " lines
112 that are different from those of the mail header, to override
113 the values of these fields.
115 The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
116 "Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
117 where the patch begins. Excess whitespaces at the end of the
118 lines are automatically stripped.
120 The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
121 message. Any line that is of form:
123 * three-dashes and end-of-line, or
124 * a line that begins with "diff -", or
125 * a line that begins with "Index: "
127 is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
128 is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.
130 When initially invoking it, you give it names of the mailboxes
131 to crunch. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
132 aborts in the middle,. You can recover from this in one of two ways:
134 . skip the current patch by re-running the command with '--skip'
137 . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
138 the index file to bring it in a state that the patch should
139 have produced. Then run the command with '--resolved' option.
141 The command refuses to process new mailboxes while `.git/rebase-apply`
142 directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
143 run `rm -f -r .git/rebase-apply` before running the command with mailbox
146 Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the
147 current branch. This is useful if you have problems with multiple
148 commits, like running 'git am' on the wrong branch or an error in the
149 commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g.
150 errors in the "From:" lines).
155 linkgit:git-apply[1].
160 Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
164 Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
168 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite