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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-am.txt | 36 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index ff307eb270..1e71dd536b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ OPTIONS ------- <mbox>|<Maildir>...:: 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. + supply this argument, the command reads from the standard input. + If you supply directories, they will be treated as Maildirs. -s:: --signoff:: @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ OPTIONS preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8). + This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the -default. You could use `--no-utf8` to override this. +default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this. --no-utf8:: Pass `-n` flag to 'git-mailinfo' (see @@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ default. You could use `--no-utf8` to override this. -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 + 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs + it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs available locally. --whitespace=<option>:: @@ -121,18 +121,18 @@ the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]". It is supposed to describe what the commit is about concisely as a one line text. -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. +The body of the message (the rest of the message after the blank line +that terminates the 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. 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 +where the patch begins. Excess whitespace characters at the end of the lines are automatically stripped. The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the -message. Any line that is of form: +message. Any line that is of the form: * three-dashes and end-of-line, or * a line that begins with "diff -", or @@ -141,18 +141,18 @@ message. Any line that is of form: 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 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: +When initially invoking it, 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: -. skip the current patch by re-running the command with '--skip' +. skip the current patch by re-running the command with the '--skip' option. . 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 '--resolved' option. + 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 while `.git/rebase-apply` +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. |