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diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index b9c6fac748..32e689b2bf 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -10,8 +10,10 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--utf8 | --no-utf8] - [--3way] [--interactive] - [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] + [--3way] [--interactive] [--committer-date-is-author-date] + [--ignore-date] + [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] [--directory=<dir>] + [--reject] [-q | --quiet] [<mbox> | <Maildir>...] 'git am' (--skip | --resolved | --abort) @@ -25,18 +27,22 @@ 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:: - Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using + 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 linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). +-q:: +--quiet:: + Be quiet. Only print error messages. + -u:: --utf8:: Pass `-u` flag to 'git-mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). @@ -46,7 +52,7 @@ 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 @@ -55,17 +61,15 @@ 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>:: - This flag is passed to the 'git-apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1]) - program that applies - the patch. - -C<n>:: -p<n>:: +--directory=<dir>:: +--reject:: These flags are passed to the 'git-apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1]) program that applies the patch. @@ -74,6 +78,20 @@ default. You could use `--no-utf8` to override this. --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. @@ -101,24 +119,24 @@ DISCUSSION ---------- The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the -message, and commit author time is taken from the "Date: " line +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>]". -It is supposed to describe what the commit is about concisely as -a one line text. +The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the +commit is about in one line of 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. +"From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body (the rest of the +message after the blank line terminating the RFC2822 headers) +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 whitespaces at the end of the -lines are automatically stripped. +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 form: +message. Any line that is of the form: * three-dashes and end-of-line, or * a line that begins with "diff -", or @@ -127,18 +145,18 @@ 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 `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: -. 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. |