SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git-am' [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--utf8 | --no-utf8] [--binary] [--3way]
- [--interactive] [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>]
- <mbox>...
+'git-am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--utf8 | --no-utf8]
+ [--3way] [--interactive] [--binary]
+ [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>]
+ <mbox>|<Maildir>...
'git-am' [--skip | --resolved]
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
-------
-<mbox>...::
+<mbox>|<Maildir>...::
The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
- supply this argument, reads from the standard input.
+ supply this argument, reads from the standard input. If you supply
+ directories, they'll be treated as Maildirs.
-s, --signoff::
Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
the committer identity of yourself.
--d=<dir>, --dotest=<dir>::
- Instead of `.dotest` directory, use <dir> as a working
- area to store extracted patches.
-
-k, --keep::
- Pass `-k` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
+ Pass `-k` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
-u, --utf8::
- Pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
+ Pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
- are re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
+ 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).
+
--no-utf8::
Pass `-n` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see
- gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
-
--b, --binary::
- Pass `--allow-binary-replacement` flag to `git-apply`
- (see gitlink:git-apply[1]).
+ linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
-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 linkgit: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 linkgit:git-apply[1])
+ program that applies
the patch.
-C<n>, -p<n>::
- These flags are passed to the `git-apply` program that applies
+ These flags are passed to the `git-apply` (see linkgit:git-apply[1])
+ program that applies
the patch.
-i, --interactive::
- Run interactively, just like git-applymbox.
+ Run interactively.
+
+--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
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:
+aborts in the middle,. 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
The command refuses to process new mailboxes while `.dotest`
directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
-run `rm -f .dotest` before running the command with mailbox
+run `rm -f -r .dotest` before running the command with mailbox
names.
SEE ALSO
--------
-gitlink:git-applymbox[1], gitlink:git-applypatch[1], gitlink:git-apply[1].
+linkgit:git-apply[1].
Author
GIT
---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-
+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite