git-am

SYNOPSIS
       git am [--signoff] [--keep] [--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)).

       -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'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.
           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

       The command refuses to process new mailboxes while the
       .git/rebase-apply directory exists, so if you decide to start over from
       scratch, run rm -f -r .git/rebase-apply 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).

AUTHOR
       Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com[1]>

DOCUMENTATION
       Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list
       <git@vger.kernel.org[2]>.

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite

NOTES
        1. gitster@pobox.com
           mailto:gitster@pobox.com

        2. git@vger.kernel.org
           mailto:git@vger.kernel.org



Git 1.7.0.4                       04/12/2010                         GIT-AM(1)