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diff --git a/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt b/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3bc92d8cf1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +git-applymbox(1) +================ + +NAME +---- +git-applymbox - Apply a series of patches in a mailbox + + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +'git-applymbox' [-u] [-k] [-q] [-m] ( -c .dotest/<num> | <mbox> ) [ <signoff> ] + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message, +authorship information and patches, and applies them to the +current branch. + + +OPTIONS +------- +-q:: + Apply patches interactively. The user will be given + opportunity to edit the log message and the patch before + attempting to apply it. + +-k:: + Usually the program 'cleans up' the Subject: header line + to extract the title line for the commit log message, + among which (1) remove 'Re:' or 're:', (2) leading + whitespaces, (3) '[' up to ']', typically '[PATCH]', and + then prepends "[PATCH] ". This flag forbids this + munging, and is most useful when used to read back 'git + format-patch --mbox' output. + +-m:: + Patches are applied with `git-apply` command, and unless + it cleanly applies without fuzz, the processing fails. + With this flag, if a tree that the patch applies cleanly + is found in a repository, the patch is applied to the + tree and then a 3-way merge between the resulting tree + and the current tree. + +-u:: + Pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]). + The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail + are 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 used to be + optional but now it is the default. ++ +Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset +conversion, even with this flag. + +-n:: + Pass `-n` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see + gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]). + +-c .dotest/<num>:: + When the patch contained in an e-mail does not cleanly + apply, the command exits with an error message. The + patch and extracted message are found in .dotest/, and + you could re-run 'git applymbox' with '-c .dotest/<num>' + flag to restart the process after inspecting and fixing + them. + +<mbox>:: + The name of the file that contains the e-mail messages + with patches. This file should be in the UNIX mailbox + format. See 'SubmittingPatches' document to learn about + the formatting convention for e-mail submission. + +<signoff>:: + The name of the file that contains your "Signed-off-by" + line. See 'SubmittingPatches' document to learn what + "Signed-off-by" line means. You can also just say + 'yes', 'true', 'me', or 'please' to use an automatically + generated "Signed-off-by" line based on your committer + identity. + + +SEE ALSO +-------- +gitlink:git-am[1], gitlink:git-applypatch[1]. + + +Author +------ +Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> + +Documentation +-------------- +Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. + +GIT +--- +Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite + |