NAME
----
-git-am - Apply a series of patches in a mailbox
+git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git-am' [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--utf8] [--binary] [--3way]
- [--interactive] [--whitespace=<option>] <mbox>...
+'git-am' [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--keep] [--utf8 | --no-utf8]
+ [--3way] [--interactive] [--binary]
+ [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>]
+ <mbox>...
'git-am' [--skip | --resolved]
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
-------
---signoff::
+<mbox>...::
+ The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
+ supply this argument, reads from the standard input.
+
+-s, --signoff::
Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
the committer identity of yourself.
---dotest=<dir>::
+-d=<dir>, --dotest=<dir>::
Instead of `.dotest` directory, use <dir> as a working
area to store extracted patches.
---utf8, --keep::
- Pass `-u` and `-k` flags to `git-mailinfo` (see
+-k, --keep::
+ Pass `-k` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
+
+-u, --utf8::
+ Pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
+ The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
+ is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
+ `i18n.commitencoding` can be used to specify project's
+ preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
++
+This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
+default. You could use `--no-utf8` to override this.
+
+--no-utf8::
+ Pass `-n` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see
gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
---binary::
- Pass `--allow-binary-replacement` flag to `git-apply`
- (see gitlink:git-apply[1]).
-
---3way::
+-3, --3way::
When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
3-way merge, if the patch records the identity of blobs
it is supposed to apply to, and we have those blobs
- locally.
+ available locally.
---skip::
- Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
- restarting an aborted patch.
+-b, --binary::
+ Pass `--allow-binary-replacement` flag to `git-apply`
+ (see gitlink:git-apply[1]).
--whitespace=<option>::
- This flag is passed to the `git-apply` program that applies
+ This flag is passed to the `git-apply` (see gitlink:git-apply[1])
+ program that applies
+ the patch.
+
+-C<n>, -p<n>::
+ These flags are passed to the `git-apply` (see gitlink:git-apply[1])
+ program that applies
the patch.
---interactive::
- Run interactively, just like git-applymbox.
+-i, --interactive::
+ Run interactively.
---resolved::
+--skip::
+ Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
+ restarting an aborted patch.
+
+-r, --resolved::
After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
the index file stores the result of the application.
extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
file, and continue.
+--resolvemsg=<msg>::
+ When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed
+ to the screen before exiting. This overrides the
+ standard message informing you to use `--resolved`
+ or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely
+ for internal use between `git-rebase` and `git-am`.
+
DISCUSSION
----------
+The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
+message, and commit author time is taken from the "Date: " line
+of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of
+the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
+It is supposed to describe what the commit is about concisely as
+a one line text.
+
+The body of the message (iow, after a blank line that terminates
+RFC2822 headers) can begin with "Subject: " and "From: " lines
+that are different from those of the mail header, to override
+the values of these fields.
+
+The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
+"Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
+where the patch begins. Excess whitespaces at the end of the
+lines are automatically stripped.
+
+The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
+message. Any line that is of form:
+
+* three-dashes and end-of-line, or
+* a line that begins with "diff -", or
+* a line that begins with "Index: "
+
+is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
+is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.
+
When initially invoking it, you give it names of the mailboxes
to crunch. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
aborts in the middle, just like 'git-applymbox' does. You can
recover from this in one of two ways:
-. skip the current one by re-running the command with '--skip'
+. skip the current patch by re-running the command with '--skip'
option.
. hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update