1git-quiltimport(1) 2================== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-quiltimport - Applies a quilt patchset onto the current branch 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 12'git quiltimport' [--dry-run | -n] [--author <author>] [--patches <dir>] 13 [--series <file>] 14 15 16DESCRIPTION 17----------- 18Applies a quilt patchset onto the current Git branch, preserving 19the patch boundaries, patch order, and patch descriptions present 20in the quilt patchset. 21 22For each patch the code attempts to extract the author from the 23patch description. If that fails it falls back to the author 24specified with --author. If the --author flag was not given 25the patch description is displayed and the user is asked to 26interactively enter the author of the patch. 27 28If a subject is not found in the patch description the patch name is 29preserved as the 1 line subject in the Git description. 30 31OPTIONS 32------- 33 34-n:: 35--dry-run:: 36 Walk through the patches in the series and warn 37 if we cannot find all of the necessary information to commit 38 a patch. At the time of this writing only missing author 39 information is warned about. 40 41--author Author Name <Author Email>:: 42 The author name and email address to use when no author 43 information can be found in the patch description. 44 45--patches <dir>:: 46 The directory to find the quilt patches. 47+ 48The default for the patch directory is patches 49or the value of the `$QUILT_PATCHES` environment 50variable. 51 52--series <file>:: 53 The quilt series file. 54+ 55The default for the series file is <patches>/series 56or the value of the `$QUILT_SERIES` environment 57variable. 58 59GIT 60--- 61Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite