NAME
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-git-applymbox - Some git command not yet documented.
+git-applymbox - Apply a series of patches in a mailbox
SYNOPSIS
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-'git-applymbox' [ --option ] <args>...
+'git-applymbox' [-u] [-k] [-q] [-m] ( -c .dotest/<num> | <mbox> ) [ <signoff> ]
DESCRIPTION
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-Does something not yet documented.
+Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message,
+authorship information and patches, and applies them to the
+current branch.
OPTIONS
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---option::
- Some option not yet documented.
+-q::
+ Apply patches interactively. The user will be given
+ opportunity to edit the log message and the patch before
+ attempting to apply it.
-<args>...::
- Some argument not yet documented.
+-k::
+ Usually the program 'cleans up' the Subject: header line
+ to extract the title line for the commit log message,
+ among which (1) remove 'Re:' or 're:', (2) leading
+ whitespaces, (3) '[' up to ']', typically '[PATCH]', and
+ then prepends "[PATCH] ". This flag forbids this
+ munging, and is most useful when used to read back 'git
+ format-patch --mbox' output.
+
+-m::
+ Patches are applied with `git-apply` command, and unless
+ it cleanly applies without fuzz, the processing fails.
+ With this flag, if a tree that the patch applies cleanly
+ is found in a repository, the patch is applied to the
+ tree and then a 3-way merge between the resulting tree
+ and the current tree.
+
+-u::
+ 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 used to be
+ optional but now it is the default.
++
+Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset
+conversion, even with this flag.
+
+-n::
+ Pass `-n` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see
+ gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
+
+-c .dotest/<num>::
+ When the patch contained in an e-mail does not cleanly
+ apply, the command exits with an error message. The
+ patch and extracted message are found in .dotest/, and
+ you could re-run 'git applymbox' with '-c .dotest/<num>'
+ flag to restart the process after inspecting and fixing
+ them.
+
+<mbox>::
+ The name of the file that contains the e-mail messages
+ with patches. This file should be in the UNIX mailbox
+ format. See 'SubmittingPatches' document to learn about
+ the formatting convention for e-mail submission.
+
+<signoff>::
+ The name of the file that contains your "Signed-off-by"
+ line. See 'SubmittingPatches' document to learn what
+ "Signed-off-by" line means. You can also just say
+ 'yes', 'true', 'me', or 'please' to use an automatically
+ generated "Signed-off-by" line based on your committer
+ identity.
+
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+gitlink:git-am[1], gitlink:git-applypatch[1].
Author
GIT
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-Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite