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] [--[no-]keep-cr] [--[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 [--exclude=<path>] [--include=<path>] [--reject] [-q | --quiet] 17 [--[no-]scissors] [-S[<keyid>]] 18 [(<mbox> | <Maildir>)...] 19'git am' (--continue | --skip | --abort) 20 21DESCRIPTION 22----------- 23Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message, 24authorship information and patches, and applies them to the 25current branch. 26 27OPTIONS 28------- 29(<mbox>|<Maildir>)...:: 30 The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not 31 supply this argument, the command reads from the standard input. 32 If you supply directories, they will be treated as Maildirs. 33 34-s:: 35--signoff:: 36 Add a `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using 37 the committer identity of yourself. 38 39-k:: 40--keep:: 41 Pass `-k` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). 42 43--keep-non-patch:: 44 Pass `-b` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). 45 46--[no-]keep-cr:: 47 With `--keep-cr`, call 'git mailsplit' (see linkgit:git-mailsplit[1]) 48 with the same option, to prevent it from stripping CR at the end of 49 lines. `am.keepcr` configuration variable can be used to specify the 50 default behaviour. `--no-keep-cr` is useful to override `am.keepcr`. 51 52-c:: 53--scissors:: 54 Remove everything in body before a scissors line (see 55 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). 56 57--no-scissors:: 58 Ignore scissors lines (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). 59 60-q:: 61--quiet:: 62 Be quiet. Only print error messages. 63 64-u:: 65--utf8:: 66 Pass `-u` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). 67 The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail 68 is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable 69 `i18n.commitencoding` can be used to specify project's 70 preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8). 71+ 72This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the 73default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this. 74 75--no-utf8:: 76 Pass `-n` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see 77 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). 78 79-3:: 80--3way:: 81 When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on 82 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs 83 it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs 84 available locally. 85 86--ignore-date:: 87--ignore-space-change:: 88--ignore-whitespace:: 89--whitespace=<option>:: 90-C<n>:: 91-p<n>:: 92--directory=<dir>:: 93--exclude=<path>:: 94--include=<path>:: 95--reject:: 96 These flags are passed to the 'git apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1]) 97 program that applies 98 the patch. 99 100-i:: 101--interactive:: 102 Run interactively. 103 104--committer-date-is-author-date:: 105 By default the command records the date from the e-mail 106 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of 107 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the 108 user to lie about the committer date by using the same 109 value as the author date. 110 111--ignore-date:: 112 By default the command records the date from the e-mail 113 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of 114 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the 115 user to lie about the author date by using the same 116 value as the committer date. 117 118--skip:: 119 Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when 120 restarting an aborted patch. 121 122-S[<keyid>]:: 123--gpg-sign[=<keyid>]:: 124 GPG-sign commits. 125 126--continue:: 127-r:: 128--resolved:: 129 After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply 130 conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and 131 the index file stores the result of the application. 132 Make a commit using the authorship and commit log 133 extracted from the e-mail message and the current index 134 file, and continue. 135 136--resolvemsg=<msg>:: 137 When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed 138 to the screen before exiting. This overrides the 139 standard message informing you to use `--continue` 140 or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely 141 for internal use between 'git rebase' and 'git am'. 142 143--abort:: 144 Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation. 145 146DISCUSSION 147---------- 148 149The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the 150message, and commit author date is taken from the "Date: " line 151of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of 152the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]". 153The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the 154commit is about in one line of text. 155 156"From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the respective 157commit author name and title values taken from the headers. 158 159The commit message is formed by the title taken from the 160"Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to 161where the patch begins. Excess whitespace at the end of each 162line is automatically stripped. 163 164The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the 165message. Any line that is of the form: 166 167* three-dashes and end-of-line, or 168* a line that begins with "diff -", or 169* a line that begins with "Index: " 170 171is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message 172is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line. 173 174When initially invoking `git am`, you give it the names of the mailboxes 175to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it 176aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways: 177 178. skip the current patch by re-running the command with the '--skip' 179 option. 180 181. hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update 182 the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should 183 have produced. Then run the command with the '--continue' option. 184 185The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current 186operation is finished, so if you decide to start over from scratch, 187run `git am --abort` before running the command with mailbox 188names. 189 190Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the 191current branch. This is useful if you have problems with multiple 192commits, like running 'git am' on the wrong branch or an error in the 193commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g. 194errors in the "From:" lines). 195 196HOOKS 197----- 198This command can run `applypatch-msg`, `pre-applypatch`, 199and `post-applypatch` hooks. See linkgit:githooks[5] for more 200information. 201 202SEE ALSO 203-------- 204linkgit:git-apply[1]. 205 206GIT 207--- 208Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite