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 14 15DESCRIPTION 16----------- 17Applies a quilt patchset onto the current git branch, preserving 18the patch boundaries, patch order, and patch descriptions present 19in the quilt patchset. 20 21For each patch the code attempts to extract the author from the 22patch description. If that fails it falls back to the author 23specified with --author. If the --author flag was not given 24the patch description is displayed and the user is asked to 25interactively enter the author of the patch. 26 27If a subject is not found in the patch description the patch name is 28preserved as the 1 line subject in the git description. 29 30OPTIONS 31------- 32 33-n:: 34--dry-run:: 35 Walk through the patches in the series and warn 36 if we cannot find all of the necessary information to commit 37 a patch. At the time of this writing only missing author 38 information is warned about. 39 40--author Author Name <Author Email>:: 41 The author name and email address to use when no author 42 information can be found in the patch description. 43 44--patches <dir>:: 45 The directory to find the quilt patches and the 46 quilt series file. 47+ 48The default for the patch directory is patches 49or the value of the $QUILT_PATCHES environment 50variable. 51 52Author 53------ 54Written by Eric Biederman <ebiederm@lnxi.com> 55 56Documentation 57-------------- 58Documentation by Eric Biederman <ebiederm@lnxi.com> 59 60GIT 61--- 62Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite