GIT-AM(1) Git Manual GIT-AM(1)
NAME
git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
SYNOPSIS
git am [--signoff] [--keep] [--[no-]keep-cr] [--[no-]utf8]
[--[no-]3way] [--interactive] [--committer-date-is-author-date]
[--ignore-date] [--ignore-space-change | --ignore-whitespace]
[--whitespace=] [-C] [-p] [--directory=]
[--exclude=] [--include=] [--reject] [-q | --quiet]
[--[no-]scissors] [-S[]] [--patch-format=]
[( | )...]
git am (--continue | --skip | --abort)
DESCRIPTION
Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message, authorship information and
patches, and applies them to the current branch.
OPTIONS
(|)...
The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not supply this argument,
the command reads from the standard input. If you supply directories, they will be
treated as Maildirs.
-s, --signoff
Add a Signed-off-by: line to the commit message, using the committer identity of
yourself. See the signoff option in git-commit(1) for more information.
-k, --keep
Pass -k flag to git mailinfo (see git-mailinfo(1)).
--keep-non-patch
Pass -b flag to git mailinfo (see git-mailinfo(1)).
--[no-]keep-cr
With --keep-cr, call git mailsplit (see git-mailsplit(1)) with the same option, to
prevent it from stripping CR at the end of lines. am.keepcr configuration variable
can be used to specify the default behaviour. --no-keep-cr is useful to override
am.keepcr.
-c, --scissors
Remove everything in body before a scissors line (see git-mailinfo(1)). Can be
activated by default using the mailinfo.scissors configuration variable.
--no-scissors
Ignore scissors lines (see git-mailinfo(1)).
-m, --message-id
Pass the -m flag to git mailinfo (see git-mailinfo(1)), so that the Message-ID header
is added to the commit message. The am.messageid configuration variable can be used to
specify the default behaviour.
--no-message-id
Do not add the Message-ID header to the commit message. no-message-id is useful to
override am.messageid.
-q, --quiet
Be quiet. Only print error messages.
-u, --utf8
Pass -u flag to git mailinfo (see 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 can use
--no-utf8 to override this.
--no-utf8
Pass -n flag to git mailinfo (see git-mailinfo(1)).
-3, --3way, --no-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 available
locally. --no-3way can be used to override am.threeWay configuration variable. For
more information, see am.threeWay in git-config(1).
--ignore-space-change, --ignore-whitespace, --whitespace=, -C, -p,
--directory=, --exclude=, --include=, --reject
These flags are passed to the git apply (see git-apply(1)) program that applies the
patch.
--patch-format
By default the command will try to detect the patch format automatically. This option
allows the user to bypass the automatic detection and specify the patch format that
the patch(es) should be interpreted as. Valid formats are mbox, stgit, stgit-series
and hg.
-i, --interactive
Run interactively.
--committer-date-is-author-date
By default the command records the date from the e-mail message as the commit author
date, and uses the time of commit creation as the committer date. This allows the user
to lie about the committer date by using the same value as the author date.
--ignore-date
By default the command records the date from the e-mail message as the commit author
date, and uses the time of commit creation as the committer date. This allows the user
to lie about the author date by using the same value as the committer date.
--skip
Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when restarting an aborted patch.
-S[], --gpg-sign[=]
GPG-sign commits. The keyid argument is optional and defaults to the committer
identity; if specified, it must be stuck to the option without a space.
--continue, -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. Make a
commit using the authorship and commit log extracted from the e-mail message and the
current index file, and continue.
--resolvemsg=
When a patch failure occurs, will be printed to the screen before exiting. This
overrides the standard message informing you to use --continue or --skip to handle the
failure. This is solely for internal use between git rebase and git am.
--abort
Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation.
DISCUSSION
The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the message, and commit author
date 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 ]". The "Subject: "
line is supposed to concisely describe what the commit is about in one line of text.
"From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the respective commit author
name and title values taken from the headers.
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 whitespace at the end of each
line is automatically stripped.
The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the message. Any line that is of
the 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 git am, you give it the names of the mailboxes to process. Upon
seeing the first patch that does not apply, it aborts in the middle. You can recover from
this in one of two ways:
1. skip the current patch by re-running the command with the --skip option.
2. hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update the index file to bring
it into a state that the patch should have produced. Then run the command with the
--continue option.
The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current operation is finished, so
if you decide to start over from scratch, run git am --abort before running the command
with mailbox names.
Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the current branch. This is
useful if you have problems with multiple commits, like running git am on the wrong branch
or an error in the commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g. errors
in the "From:" lines).
HOOKS
This command can run applypatch-msg, pre-applypatch, and post-applypatch hooks. See
githooks(5) for more information.
SEE ALSO
git-apply(1).
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
Git 2.7.4 03/23/2016 GIT-AM(1)
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