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>] [--utf8 | --no-utf8] [--binary] [--3way]
+ [--interactive] [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>]
+ <mbox>...
'git-am' [--skip | --resolved]
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
-------
+<mbox>...::
+ The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
+ supply this argument, reads from the standard input.
+
--signoff::
Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
the committer identity of yourself.
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
+--keep::
+ Pass `-k` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
+
+--utf8::
+ Pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
+ The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
+ are 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::
+ Do not pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see
gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
--binary::
This flag is passed to the `git-apply` program that applies
the patch.
+-C<n>, -p<n>::
+ These flags are passed to the `git-apply` program that applies
+ the patch.
+
--interactive::
Run interactively, just like git-applymbox.
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