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 19 20OPTIONS 21------- 22<msg>:: 23 Commit log message (sans the first line, which comes 24 from e-mail Subject stored in <info>). 25 26<patch>:: 27 The patch to apply. 28 29<info>: 30 Author and subject information extracted from e-mail, 31 used on "author" line and as the first line of the 32 commit log message. 33 34 35Author 36------ 37Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 38 39Documentation 40-------------- 41Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 42 43GIT 44--- 45Part of the link:git.html[git] suite 46