1git-applypatch(1) 2================= 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-applypatch - Apply one patch extracted from an e-mail 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-applypatch' <msg> <patch> <info> [<signoff>] 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15This is usually not what an end user wants to run directly. See 16gitlink:git-am[1] instead. 17 18Takes three files <msg>, <patch>, and <info> prepared from an 19e-mail message by 'git-mailinfo', and creates a commit. It is 20usually not necessary to use this command directly. 21 22This command can run `applypatch-msg`, `pre-applypatch`, and 23`post-applypatch` hooks. See link:hooks.html[hooks] for more 24information. 25 26 27OPTIONS 28------- 29<msg>:: 30 Commit log message (sans the first line, which comes 31 from e-mail Subject stored in <info>). 32 33<patch>:: 34 The patch to apply. 35 36<info>:: 37 Author and subject information extracted from e-mail, 38 used on "author" line and as the first line of the 39 commit log message. 40 41 42Author 43------ 44Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 45 46Documentation 47-------------- 48Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 49 50GIT 51--- 52Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 53