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 <title>git-am(1)</title>
 </head>
 <body>
 <div id="header">
 <h1>
 git-am(1) Manual Page
 </h1>
 <h2>NAME</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <p>git-am -
  Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
 </p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="verseblock">
 <div class="content"><em>git am</em> [--signoff] [--keep] [--utf8 | --no-utf8]
  [--3way] [--interactive]
  [--whitespace=&lt;option&gt;] [-C&lt;n&gt;] [-p&lt;n&gt;] [--directory=&lt;dir&gt;]
  [&lt;mbox&gt; | &lt;Maildir&gt;&#8230;]
 <em>git am</em> (--skip | --resolved | --abort)</div></div>
 </div>
 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="para"><p>Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message,
 authorship information and patches, and applies them to the
 current branch.</p></div>
 </div>
 <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="vlist"><dl>
 <dt>
 &lt;mbox&gt;|&lt;Maildir&gt;&#8230;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
  supply this argument, reads from the standard input. If you supply
  directories, they'll be treated as Maildirs.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt>
 -s
 </dt>
 <dt>
 --signoff
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Add <tt>Signed-off-by:</tt> line to the commit message, using
  the committer identity of yourself.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt>
 -k
 </dt>
 <dt>
 --keep
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Pass <tt>-k</tt> flag to <em>git-mailinfo</em> (see <a href="git-mailinfo.html">git-mailinfo(1)</a>).
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt>
 -u
 </dt>
 <dt>
 --utf8
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Pass <tt>-u</tt> flag to <em>git-mailinfo</em> (see <a href="git-mailinfo.html">git-mailinfo(1)</a>).
  The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
  is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
  <tt>i18n.commitencoding</tt> can be used to specify project's
  preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
 </p>
 <div class="para"><p>This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
 default. You could use <tt>--no-utf8</tt> to override this.</p></div>
 </dd>
 <dt>
 --no-utf8
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Pass <tt>-n</tt> flag to <em>git-mailinfo</em> (see
  <a href="git-mailinfo.html">git-mailinfo(1)</a>).
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt>
 -3
 </dt>
 <dt>
 --3way
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  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.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt>
 --whitespace=&lt;option&gt;
 </dt>
 <dt>
 -C&lt;n&gt;
 </dt>
 <dt>
 -p&lt;n&gt;
 </dt>
 <dt>
 --directory=&lt;dir&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  These flags are passed to the <em>git-apply</em> (see <a href="git-apply.html">git-apply(1)</a>)
  program that applies
  the patch.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt>
 -i
 </dt>
 <dt>
 --interactive
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Run interactively.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt>
 --skip
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
  restarting an aborted patch.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt>
 -r
 </dt>
 <dt>
 --resolved
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  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.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt>
 --resolvemsg=&lt;msg&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  When a patch failure occurs, &lt;msg&gt; will be printed
  to the screen before exiting. This overrides the
  standard message informing you to use <tt>--resolved</tt>
  or <tt>--skip</tt> to handle the failure. This is solely
  for internal use between <em>git-rebase</em> and <em>git-am</em>.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt>
 --abort
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation.
 </p>
 </dd>
 </dl></div>
 </div>
 <h2 id="_discussion">DISCUSSION</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="para"><p>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 &lt;anything&gt;]".
 It is supposed to describe what the commit is about concisely as
 a one line text.</p></div>
 <div class="para"><p>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.</p></div>
 <div class="para"><p>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.</p></div>
 <div class="para"><p>The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
 message. Any line that is of form:</p></div>
 <div class="ilist"><ul>
 <li>
 <p>
 three-dashes and end-of-line, or
 </p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>
 a line that begins with "diff -", or
 </p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>
 a line that begins with "Index: "
 </p>
 </li>
 </ul></div>
 <div class="para"><p>is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
 is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.</p></div>
 <div class="para"><p>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,. You can recover from this in one of two ways:</p></div>
 <div class="olist"><ol>
 <li>
 <p>
 skip the current patch by re-running the command with <em>--skip</em>
  option.
 </p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>
 hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
  the index file to bring it in a state that the patch should
  have produced. Then run the command with <em>--resolved</em> option.
 </p>
 </li>
 </ol></div>
 <div class="para"><p>The command refuses to process new mailboxes while <tt>.git/rebase-apply</tt>
 directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
 run <tt>rm -f -r .git/rebase-apply</tt> before running the command with mailbox
 names.</p></div>
 <div class="para"><p>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 <em>git am</em> 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).</p></div>
 </div>
 <h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="para"><p><a href="git-apply.html">git-apply(1)</a>.</p></div>
 </div>
 <h2 id="_author">Author</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="para"><p>Written by Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;</p></div>
 </div>
 <h2 id="_documentation">Documentation</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="para"><p>Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list &lt;git@vger.kernel.org&gt;.</p></div>
 </div>
 <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="para"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
 </div>
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	git-am(1) Manual Page
	</h1>
	<h2>NAME</h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<p>git-am -
	Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
	</p>
	</div>
	</div>
	<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="verseblock">
	<div class="content"><em>git am</em> [--signoff] [--keep] [--utf8 \| --no-utf8]
	[--3way] [--interactive]
	[--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] [--directory=<dir>]
	[<mbox> \| <Maildir>…]
	<em>git am</em> (--skip \| --resolved \| --abort)</div></div>
	</div>
	<h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="para"><p>Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message,
	authorship information and patches, and applies them to the
	current branch.</p></div>
	</div>
	<h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
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	<dt>
	<mbox>\|<Maildir>…
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
	supply this argument, reads from the standard input. If you supply
	directories, they'll be treated as Maildirs.
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt>
	-s
	</dt>
	<dt>
	--signoff
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	Add <tt>Signed-off-by:</tt> line to the commit message, using
	the committer identity of yourself.
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt>
	-k
	</dt>
	<dt>
	--keep
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	Pass <tt>-k</tt> flag to <em>git-mailinfo</em> (see <a href="git-mailinfo.html">git-mailinfo(1)</a>).
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt>
	-u
	</dt>
	<dt>
	--utf8
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	Pass <tt>-u</tt> flag to <em>git-mailinfo</em> (see <a href="git-mailinfo.html">git-mailinfo(1)</a>).
	The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
	is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
	<tt>i18n.commitencoding</tt> can be used to specify project's
	preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
	</p>
	<div class="para"><p>This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
	default. You could use <tt>--no-utf8</tt> to override this.</p></div>
	</dd>
	<dt>
	--no-utf8
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	Pass <tt>-n</tt> flag to <em>git-mailinfo</em> (see
	<a href="git-mailinfo.html">git-mailinfo(1)</a>).
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt>
	-3
	</dt>
	<dt>
	--3way
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	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.
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt>
	--whitespace=<option>
	</dt>
	<dt>
	-C<n>
	</dt>
	<dt>
	-p<n>
	</dt>
	<dt>
	--directory=<dir>
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	These flags are passed to the <em>git-apply</em> (see <a href="git-apply.html">git-apply(1)</a>)
	program that applies
	the patch.
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt>
	-i
	</dt>
	<dt>
	--interactive
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	Run interactively.
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt>
	--skip
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
	restarting an aborted patch.
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt>
	-r
	</dt>
	<dt>
	--resolved
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	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.
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt>
	--resolvemsg=<msg>
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed
	to the screen before exiting. This overrides the
	standard message informing you to use <tt>--resolved</tt>
	or <tt>--skip</tt> to handle the failure. This is solely
	for internal use between <em>git-rebase</em> and <em>git-am</em>.
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt>
	--abort
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation.
	</p>
	</dd>
	</dl></div>
	</div>
	<h2 id="_discussion">DISCUSSION</h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="para"><p>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.</p></div>
	<div class="para"><p>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.</p></div>
	<div class="para"><p>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.</p></div>
	<div class="para"><p>The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
	message. Any line that is of form:</p></div>
	<div class="ilist"><ul>
	<li>
	<p>
	three-dashes and end-of-line, or
	</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>
	a line that begins with "diff -", or
	</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>
	a line that begins with "Index: "
	</p>
	</li>
	</ul></div>
	<div class="para"><p>is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
	is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.</p></div>
	<div class="para"><p>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,. You can recover from this in one of two ways:</p></div>
	<div class="olist"><ol>
	<li>
	<p>
	skip the current patch by re-running the command with <em>--skip</em>
	option.
	</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>
	hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
	the index file to bring it in a state that the patch should
	have produced. Then run the command with <em>--resolved</em> option.
	</p>
	</li>
	</ol></div>
	<div class="para"><p>The command refuses to process new mailboxes while <tt>.git/rebase-apply</tt>
	directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
	run <tt>rm -f -r .git/rebase-apply</tt> before running the command with mailbox
	names.</p></div>
	<div class="para"><p>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 <em>git am</em> 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).</p></div>
	</div>
	<h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="para"><p><a href="git-apply.html">git-apply(1)</a>.</p></div>
	</div>
	<h2 id="_author">Author</h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="para"><p>Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com></p></div>
	</div>
	<h2 id="_documentation">Documentation</h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="para"><p>Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.</p></div>
	</div>
	<h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="para"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
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