| git-am(1) |
| ========= |
| |
| NAME |
| ---- |
| git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox |
| |
| |
| SYNOPSIS |
| -------- |
| [verse] |
| 'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--[no-]keep-cr] [--[no-]utf8] |
| [--3way] [--interactive] [--committer-date-is-author-date] |
| [--ignore-date] [--ignore-space-change | --ignore-whitespace] |
| [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] [--directory=<dir>] |
| [--exclude=<path>] [--include=<path>] [--reject] [-q | --quiet] |
| [--[no-]scissors] |
| [(<mbox> | <Maildir>)...] |
| 'git am' (--continue | --skip | --abort) |
| |
| DESCRIPTION |
| ----------- |
| Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message, |
| authorship information and patches, and applies them to the |
| current branch. |
| |
| OPTIONS |
| ------- |
| (<mbox>|<Maildir>)...:: |
| The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not |
| supply this argument, the command reads from the standard input. |
| If you supply directories, they will be treated as Maildirs. |
| |
| -s:: |
| --signoff:: |
| Add a `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using |
| the committer identity of yourself. |
| |
| -k:: |
| --keep:: |
| Pass `-k` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). |
| |
| --keep-non-patch:: |
| Pass `-b` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). |
| |
| --[no-]keep-cr:: |
| With `--keep-cr`, call 'git mailsplit' (see linkgit:git-mailsplit[1]) |
| with the same option, to prevent it from stripping CR at the end of |
| lines. `am.keepcr` configuration variable can be used to specify the |
| default behaviour. `--no-keep-cr` is useful to override `am.keepcr`. |
| |
| -c:: |
| --scissors:: |
| Remove everything in body before a scissors line (see |
| linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). |
| |
| --no-scissors:: |
| Ignore scissors lines (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). |
| |
| -q:: |
| --quiet:: |
| Be quiet. Only print error messages. |
| |
| -u:: |
| --utf8:: |
| Pass `-u` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). |
| The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail |
| is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable |
| `i18n.commitencoding` can be used to specify project's |
| preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8). |
| + |
| This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the |
| default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this. |
| |
| --no-utf8:: |
| Pass `-n` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see |
| linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). |
| |
| -3:: |
| --3way:: |
| When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on |
| 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs |
| it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs |
| available locally. |
| |
| --ignore-date:: |
| --ignore-space-change:: |
| --ignore-whitespace:: |
| --whitespace=<option>:: |
| -C<n>:: |
| -p<n>:: |
| --directory=<dir>:: |
| --exclude=<path>:: |
| --include=<path>:: |
| --reject:: |
| These flags are passed to the 'git apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1]) |
| program that applies |
| the patch. |
| |
| -i:: |
| --interactive:: |
| Run interactively. |
| |
| --committer-date-is-author-date:: |
| By default the command records the date from the e-mail |
| message as the commit author date, and uses the time of |
| commit creation as the committer date. This allows the |
| user to lie about the committer date by using the same |
| value as the author date. |
| |
| --ignore-date:: |
| By default the command records the date from the e-mail |
| message as the commit author date, and uses the time of |
| commit creation as the committer date. This allows the |
| user to lie about the author date by using the same |
| value as the committer date. |
| |
| --skip:: |
| Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when |
| restarting an aborted patch. |
| |
| --continue:: |
| -r:: |
| --resolved:: |
| After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply |
| conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and |
| the index file stores the result of the application. |
| Make a commit using the authorship and commit log |
| extracted from the e-mail message and the current index |
| file, and continue. |
| |
| --resolvemsg=<msg>:: |
| When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed |
| to the screen before exiting. This overrides the |
| standard message informing you to use `--continue` |
| or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely |
| for internal use between 'git rebase' and 'git am'. |
| |
| --abort:: |
| Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation. |
| |
| DISCUSSION |
| ---------- |
| |
| The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the |
| message, and commit author date is taken from the "Date: " line |
| of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of |
| the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]". |
| The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the |
| commit is about in one line of text. |
| |
| "From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the respective |
| commit author name and title values taken from the headers. |
| |
| The commit message is formed by the title taken from the |
| "Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to |
| where the patch begins. Excess whitespace at the end of each |
| line is automatically stripped. |
| |
| The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the |
| message. Any line that is of the form: |
| |
| * three-dashes and end-of-line, or |
| * a line that begins with "diff -", or |
| * a line that begins with "Index: " |
| |
| is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message |
| is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line. |
| |
| When initially invoking `git am`, you give it the names of the mailboxes |
| to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it |
| aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways: |
| |
| . skip the current patch by re-running the command with the '--skip' |
| option. |
| |
| . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update |
| the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should |
| have produced. Then run the command with the '--continue' option. |
| |
| The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current |
| operation is finished, so if you decide to start over from scratch, |
| run `git am --abort` before running the command with mailbox |
| names. |
| |
| Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the |
| current branch. This is useful if you have problems with multiple |
| commits, like running 'git am' on the wrong branch or an error in the |
| commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g. |
| errors in the "From:" lines). |
| |
| |
| SEE ALSO |
| -------- |
| linkgit:git-apply[1]. |
| |
| GIT |
| --- |
| Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |