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' (--continue | --skip | --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--continue:: 111-r:: 112--resolved:: 113 After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply 114 conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and 115 the index file stores the result of the application. 116 Make a commit using the authorship and commit log 117 extracted from the e-mail message and the current index 118 file, and continue. 119 120--resolvemsg=<msg>:: 121 When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed 122 to the screen before exiting. This overrides the 123 standard message informing you to use `--resolved` 124 or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely 125 for internal use between 'git rebase' and 'git am'. 126 127--abort:: 128 Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation. 129 130DISCUSSION 131---------- 132 133The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the 134message, and commit author date is taken from the "Date: " line 135of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of 136the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]". 137The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the 138commit is about in one line of text. 139 140"From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the respective 141commit author name and title values taken from the headers. 142 143The commit message is formed by the title taken from the 144"Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to 145where the patch begins. Excess whitespace at the end of each 146line is automatically stripped. 147 148The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the 149message. Any line that is of the form: 150 151* three-dashes and end-of-line, or 152* a line that begins with "diff -", or 153* a line that begins with "Index: " 154 155is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message 156is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line. 157 158When initially invoking `git am`, you give it the names of the mailboxes 159to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it 160aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways: 161 162. skip the current patch by re-running the command with the '--skip' 163 option. 164 165. hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update 166 the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should 167 have produced. Then run the command with the '--resolved' option. 168 169The command refuses to process new mailboxes while the `.git/rebase-apply` 170directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch, 171run `rm -f -r .git/rebase-apply` before running the command with mailbox 172names. 173 174Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the 175current branch. This is useful if you have problems with multiple 176commits, like running 'git am' on the wrong branch or an error in the 177commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g. 178errors in the "From:" lines). 179 180 181SEE ALSO 182-------- 183linkgit:git-apply[1]. 184 185 186Author 187------ 188Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 189 190Documentation 191-------------- 192Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 193 194GIT 195--- 196Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite