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diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index 46544a0769..ee6cca2e13 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -9,11 +9,14 @@ git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git-am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--utf8 | --no-utf8] - [--3way] [--interactive] [--binary] - [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] - <mbox>|<Maildir>... -'git-am' [--skip | --resolved] +'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--keep-cr | --no-keep-cr] [--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>] + [--exclude=<path>] [--reject] [-q | --quiet] + [--scissors | --no-scissors] + [(<mbox> | <Maildir>)...] +'git am' (--continue | --skip | --abort) DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -23,55 +26,74 @@ current branch. OPTIONS ------- -<mbox>|<Maildir>...:: +(<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]). + Pass `-k` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). + +--keep-non-patch:: + Pass `-b` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). + +--keep-cr:: +--no-keep-cr:: + With `--keep-cr`, call 'git mailsplit' (see linkgit:git-mailsplit[1]) + with the same option, to prevent it from stripping CR at the end of + lines. `am.keepcr` configuration variable can be used to specify the + default behaviour. `--no-keep-cr` is useful to override `am.keepcr`. + +-c:: +--scissors:: + Remove everything in body before a scissors line (see + linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). + +--no-scissors:: + Ignore scissors lines (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]). + Pass `-u` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit: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 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 + Pass `-n` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit: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 + 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs + it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs available locally. --b:: ---binary:: - Pass `--allow-binary-replacement` flag to `git-apply` - (see linkgit:git-apply[1]). - +--ignore-date:: +--ignore-space-change:: +--ignore-whitespace:: --whitespace=<option>:: - This flag is passed to the `git-apply` (see linkgit:git-apply[1]) - program that applies - the patch. - -C<n>:: -p<n>:: - These flags are passed to the `git-apply` (see linkgit:git-apply[1]) +--directory=<dir>:: +--exclude=<path>:: +--reject:: + These flags are passed to the 'git apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1]) program that applies the patch. @@ -79,10 +101,25 @@ 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. +--continue:: -r:: --resolved:: After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply @@ -97,30 +134,31 @@ default. You could use `--no-utf8` to override this. 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`. + 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 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 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 @@ -129,36 +167,33 @@ 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 `.dotest` -directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch, -run `rm -f -r .dotest` before running the command with mailbox +The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current +operation is finished, so if you decide to start over from scratch, +run `git am --abort` 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 -------- linkgit:git-apply[1]. - -Author ------- -Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |