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