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   1git-quiltimport(1)
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   3
   4NAME
   5----
   6git-quiltimport - Applies a quilt patchset onto the current branch
   7
   8
   9SYNOPSIS
  10--------
  11[verse]
  12'git-quiltimport' [--dry-run] [--author <author>] [--patches <dir>]
  13
  14
  15DESCRIPTION
  16-----------
  17Applies a quilt patchset onto the current git branch, preserving
  18the patch boundaries, patch order, and patch descriptions present
  19in the quilt patchset.
  20
  21For each patch the code attempts to extract the author from the
  22patch description.  If that fails it falls back to the author
  23specified with --author.  If the --author flag was not given
  24the patch description is displayed and the user is asked to
  25interactively enter the author of the patch.
  26
  27If a subject is not found in the patch description the patch name is
  28preserved as the 1 line subject in the git description.
  29
  30OPTIONS
  31-------
  32--dry-run::
  33        Walk through the patches in the series and warn
  34        if we cannot find all of the necessary information to commit
  35        a patch.  At the time of this writing only missing author
  36        information is warned about.
  37
  38--author Author Name <Author Email>::
  39        The author name and email address to use when no author
  40        information can be found in the patch description.
  41
  42--patches <dir>::
  43        The directory to find the quilt patches and the
  44        quilt series file.
  45
  46        The default for the patch directory is patches
  47        or the value of the $QUILT_PATCHES environment
  48        variable.
  49
  50Author
  51------
  52Written by Eric Biederman <ebiederm@lnxi.com>
  53
  54Documentation
  55--------------
  56Documentation by Eric Biederman <ebiederm@lnxi.com>
  57
  58GIT
  59---
  60Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
  61