6 git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
12 'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--[no-]keep-cr] [--[no-]utf8] [--no-verify]
13 [--[no-]3way] [--interactive] [--committer-date-is-author-date]
14 [--ignore-date] [--ignore-space-change | --ignore-whitespace]
15 [--whitespace=<action>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] [--directory=<dir>]
16 [--exclude=<path>] [--include=<path>] [--reject] [-q | --quiet]
17 [--[no-]scissors] [-S[<keyid>]] [--patch-format=<format>]
18 [--quoted-cr=<action>]
19 [--empty=(stop|drop|keep)]
20 [(<mbox> | <Maildir>)...]
21 'git am' (--continue | --skip | --abort | --quit | --show-current-patch[=(diff|raw)] | --allow-empty)
25 Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log messages,
26 authorship information, and patches, and applies them to the
27 current branch. You could think of it as a reverse operation
28 of linkgit:git-format-patch[1] run on a branch with a straight
29 history without merges.
33 (<mbox>|<Maildir>)...::
34 The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
35 supply this argument, the command reads from the standard input.
36 If you supply directories, they will be treated as Maildirs.
40 Add a `Signed-off-by` trailer to the commit message, using
41 the committer identity of yourself.
42 See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information.
46 Pass `-k` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
49 Pass `-b` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
52 With `--keep-cr`, call 'git mailsplit' (see linkgit:git-mailsplit[1])
53 with the same option, to prevent it from stripping CR at the end of
54 lines. `am.keepcr` configuration variable can be used to specify the
55 default behaviour. `--no-keep-cr` is useful to override `am.keepcr`.
59 Remove everything in body before a scissors line (see
60 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). Can be activated by default using
61 the `mailinfo.scissors` configuration variable.
64 Ignore scissors lines (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
66 --quoted-cr=<action>::
67 This flag will be passed down to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
69 --empty=(stop|drop|keep)::
70 By default, or when the option is set to 'stop', the command
71 errors out on an input e-mail message lacking a patch
72 and stops in the middle of the current am session. When this
73 option is set to 'drop', skip such an e-mail message instead.
74 When this option is set to 'keep', create an empty commit,
75 recording the contents of the e-mail message as its log.
79 Pass the `-m` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]),
80 so that the Message-ID header is added to the commit message.
81 The `am.messageid` configuration variable can be used to specify
82 the default behaviour.
85 Do not add the Message-ID header to the commit message.
86 `no-message-id` is useful to override `am.messageid`.
90 Be quiet. Only print error messages.
94 Pass `-u` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
95 The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
96 is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
97 `i18n.commitEncoding` can be used to specify the project's
98 preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
100 This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
101 default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this.
104 Pass `-n` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see
105 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
110 When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
111 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs
112 it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs
113 available locally. `--no-3way` can be used to override
114 am.threeWay configuration variable. For more information,
115 see am.threeWay in linkgit:git-config[1].
117 include::rerere-options.txt[]
119 --ignore-space-change::
120 --ignore-whitespace::
121 --whitespace=<action>::
128 These flags are passed to the 'git apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1])
133 By default the command will try to detect the patch format
134 automatically. This option allows the user to bypass the automatic
135 detection and specify the patch format that the patch(es) should be
136 interpreted as. Valid formats are mbox, mboxrd,
137 stgit, stgit-series, and hg.
145 By default, the pre-applypatch and applypatch-msg hooks are run.
146 When any of `--no-verify` or `-n` is given, these are bypassed.
147 See also linkgit:githooks[5].
149 --committer-date-is-author-date::
150 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
151 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
152 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
153 user to lie about the committer date by using the same
154 value as the author date.
157 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
158 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
159 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
160 user to lie about the author date by using the same
161 value as the committer date.
164 Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
165 restarting an aborted patch.
168 --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
170 GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and
171 defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be
172 stuck to the option without a space. `--no-gpg-sign` is useful to
173 countermand both `commit.gpgSign` configuration variable, and
174 earlier `--gpg-sign`.
179 After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
180 conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
181 the index file stores the result of the application.
182 Make a commit using the authorship and commit log
183 extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
187 When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed
188 to the screen before exiting. This overrides the
189 standard message informing you to use `--continue`
190 or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely
191 for internal use between 'git rebase' and 'git am'.
194 Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation.
195 Revert the contents of files involved in the am operation to their
199 Abort the patching operation but keep HEAD and the index
202 --show-current-patch[=(diff|raw)]::
203 Show the message at which `git am` has stopped due to
204 conflicts. If `raw` is specified, show the raw contents of
205 the e-mail message; if `diff`, show the diff portion only.
209 After a patch failure on an input e-mail message lacking a patch,
210 create an empty commit with the contents of the e-mail message
216 The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
217 message, and commit author date is taken from the "Date: " line
218 of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of
219 the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
220 The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the
221 commit is about in one line of text.
223 "From: ", "Date: ", and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the
224 respective commit author name and title values taken from the headers.
226 The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
227 "Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
228 where the patch begins. Excess whitespace at the end of each
229 line is automatically stripped.
231 The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
232 message. Any line that is of the form:
234 * three-dashes and end-of-line, or
235 * a line that begins with "diff -", or
236 * a line that begins with "Index: "
238 is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
239 is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.
241 When initially invoking `git am`, you give it the names of the mailboxes
242 to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
243 aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways:
245 . skip the current patch by re-running the command with the `--skip`
248 . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
249 the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should
250 have produced. Then run the command with the `--continue` option.
252 The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current
253 operation is finished, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
254 run `git am --abort` before running the command with mailbox
257 Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the
258 current branch. This is useful if you have problems with multiple
259 commits, like running 'git am' on the wrong branch or an error in the
260 commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g.
261 errors in the "From:" lines).
265 This command can run `applypatch-msg`, `pre-applypatch`,
266 and `post-applypatch` hooks. See linkgit:githooks[5] for more
272 include::includes/cmd-config-section-all.txt[]
274 include::config/am.txt[]
278 linkgit:git-apply[1],
279 linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
283 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite