1git-am(1) 2========= 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 12'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--utf8 | --no-utf8] 13 [--3way] [--interactive] [--committer-date-is-author-date] 14 [--ignore-date] [--ignore-space-change | --ignore-whitespace] 15 [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] [--directory=<dir>] 16 [--reject] [-q | --quiet] [--scissors | --no-scissors] 17 [<mbox> | <Maildir>...] 18'git am' (--skip | --resolved | --abort) 19 20DESCRIPTION 21----------- 22Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message, 23authorship information and patches, and applies them to the 24current branch. 25 26OPTIONS 27------- 28<mbox>|<Maildir>...:: 29 The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not 30 supply this argument, the command reads from the standard input. 31 If you supply directories, they will be treated as Maildirs. 32 33-s:: 34--signoff:: 35 Add a `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using 36 the committer identity of yourself. 37 38-k:: 39--keep:: 40 Pass `-k` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). 41 42-c:: 43--scissors:: 44 Remove everything in body before a scissors line (see 45 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). 46 47---no-scissors:: 48 Ignore scissors lines (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). 49 50-q:: 51--quiet:: 52 Be quiet. Only print error messages. 53 54-u:: 55--utf8:: 56 Pass `-u` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). 57 The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail 58 is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable 59 `i18n.commitencoding` can be used to specify project's 60 preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8). 61+ 62This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the 63default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this. 64 65--no-utf8:: 66 Pass `-n` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see 67 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). 68 69-3:: 70--3way:: 71 When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on 72 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs 73 it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs 74 available locally. 75 76--ignore-date:: 77--ignore-space-change:: 78--ignore-whitespace:: 79--whitespace=<option>:: 80-C<n>:: 81-p<n>:: 82--directory=<dir>:: 83--reject:: 84 These flags are passed to the 'git apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1]) 85 program that applies 86 the patch. 87 88-i:: 89--interactive:: 90 Run interactively. 91 92--committer-date-is-author-date:: 93 By default the command records the date from the e-mail 94 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of 95 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the 96 user to lie about the committer date by using the same 97 value as the author date. 98 99--ignore-date:: 100 By default the command records the date from the e-mail 101 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of 102 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the 103 user to lie about the author date by using the same 104 value as the committer date. 105 106--skip:: 107 Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when 108 restarting an aborted patch. 109 110-r:: 111--resolved:: 112 After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply 113 conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and 114 the index file stores the result of the application. 115 Make a commit using the authorship and commit log 116 extracted from the e-mail message and the current index 117 file, and continue. 118 119--resolvemsg=<msg>:: 120 When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed 121 to the screen before exiting. This overrides the 122 standard message informing you to use `--resolved` 123 or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely 124 for internal use between 'git rebase' and 'git am'. 125 126--abort:: 127 Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation. 128 129DISCUSSION 130---------- 131 132The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the 133message, and commit author date is taken from the "Date: " line 134of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of 135the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]". 136The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the 137commit is about in one line of text. 138 139"From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the respective 140commit author name and title values taken from the headers. 141 142The commit message is formed by the title taken from the 143"Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to 144where the patch begins. Excess whitespace at the end of each 145line is automatically stripped. 146 147The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the 148message. Any line that is of the form: 149 150* three-dashes and end-of-line, or 151* a line that begins with "diff -", or 152* a line that begins with "Index: " 153 154is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message 155is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line. 156 157When initially invoking `git am`, you give it the names of the mailboxes 158to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it 159aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways: 160 161. skip the current patch by re-running the command with the '--skip' 162 option. 163 164. hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update 165 the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should 166 have produced. Then run the command with the '--resolved' option. 167 168The command refuses to process new mailboxes while the `.git/rebase-apply` 169directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch, 170run `rm -f -r .git/rebase-apply` before running the command with mailbox 171names. 172 173Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the 174current branch. This is useful if you have problems with multiple 175commits, like running 'git am' on the wrong branch or an error in the 176commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g. 177errors in the "From:" lines). 178 179 180SEE ALSO 181-------- 182linkgit:git-apply[1]. 183 184 185Author 186------ 187Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 188 189Documentation 190-------------- 191Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 192 193GIT 194--- 195Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite