GIT-AM(1)                                                            GIT-AM(1)



NAME
       git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox

SYNOPSIS
       git am [--signoff] [--keep] [--keep-cr | --no-keep-cr] [--utf8 | --no-utf8]
                [--3way] [--interactive] [--committer-date-is-author-date]
                [--ignore-date] [--ignore-space-change | --ignore-whitespace]
                [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] [--directory=<dir>]
                [--reject] [-q | --quiet] [--scissors | --no-scissors]
                [(<mbox> | <Maildir>)...]
       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
       (<mbox>|<Maildir>)...
              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.


       -k, --keep
              Pass -k flag to git mailinfo (see git-mailinfo(1)).


       --keep-cr, --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)).


       --no-scissors
              Ignore scissors lines (see git-mailinfo(1)).


       -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&#8217;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
              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.


       --ignore-date, --ignore-space-change, --ignore-whitespace,
       --whitespace=<option>, -C<n>, -p<n>, --directory=<dir>, --reject
              These flags are passed to the git apply (see git-apply(1))
              program that applies the patch.


       -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.


       --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=<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.


       --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 <anything>]". 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:


       o  three-dashes and end-of-line, or

       o  a line that begins with "diff -", or

       o  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 --resolved 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).


SEE ALSO
       git-apply(1).


GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite




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