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' [--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--author Author Name <Author Email>:: 33 The author name and email address to use when no author 34 information can be found in the patch description. 35 36--patches <dir>:: 37 The directory to find the quilt patches and the 38 quilt series file. 39 40 The default for the patch directory is patches 41 or the value of the $QUILT_PATCHES environment 42 variable. 43 44Author 45------ 46Written by Eric Biederman <ebiederm@lnxi.com> 47 48Documentation 49-------------- 50Documentation by Eric Biederman <ebiederm@lnxi.com> 51 52GIT 53--- 54Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 55