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There were two reasons we didn't do this. As "git am" is designed to grok e-mailed patches, not necessarily taken out of a Git repostiory or even if it came from a Git repository not necessarily produced with format-patch, we didn't want to single it out as the "blessed" input producer to the command. Also, in the original workflow that "git am" was invented for, the user of "am" was expected to be a different person than the users of "format-patch". But this is a very safe change to make in 2023. Thanks to the effort by many contributors, Git ended up becoming a bit more popular than we initially thought it would be, and "format-patch", which took me a few weeks to pursuade Linus to take in 2005, seems to have become the de-facto standard tool to produce patch e-mails. Interestingly, the documentation for "git apply", which is listed in SEE ALSO section of "git am" documentation, does mention "am" and "format-patch" as two things that are related but different from "apply" in an early part. Suggested-by: Kai Grossjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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git-am(1)
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=========
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NAME
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----
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git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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[verse]
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'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--[no-]keep-cr] [--[no-]utf8] [--no-verify]
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[--[no-]3way] [--interactive] [--committer-date-is-author-date]
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[--ignore-date] [--ignore-space-change | --ignore-whitespace]
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[--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] [--directory=<dir>]
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[--exclude=<path>] [--include=<path>] [--reject] [-q | --quiet]
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[--[no-]scissors] [-S[<keyid>]] [--patch-format=<format>]
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[--quoted-cr=<action>]
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[--empty=(stop|drop|keep)]
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[(<mbox> | <Maildir>)...]
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'git am' (--continue | --skip | --abort | --quit | --show-current-patch[=(diff|raw)] | --allow-empty)
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DESCRIPTION
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-----------
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Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message,
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authorship information and patches, and applies them to the
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current branch. You could think of it as a reverse operation
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of linkgit:git-format-patch[1] run on a branch with a straight
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history without merges.
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OPTIONS
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-------
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(<mbox>|<Maildir>)...::
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The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
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supply this argument, the command reads from the standard input.
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If you supply directories, they will be treated as Maildirs.
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-s::
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--signoff::
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Add a `Signed-off-by` trailer to the commit message, using
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the committer identity of yourself.
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See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information.
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-k::
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--keep::
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Pass `-k` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
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--keep-non-patch::
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Pass `-b` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
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--[no-]keep-cr::
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With `--keep-cr`, call 'git mailsplit' (see linkgit:git-mailsplit[1])
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with the same option, to prevent it from stripping CR at the end of
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lines. `am.keepcr` configuration variable can be used to specify the
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default behaviour. `--no-keep-cr` is useful to override `am.keepcr`.
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-c::
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--scissors::
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Remove everything in body before a scissors line (see
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linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). Can be activated by default using
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the `mailinfo.scissors` configuration variable.
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--no-scissors::
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Ignore scissors lines (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
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--quoted-cr=<action>::
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This flag will be passed down to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
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--empty=(stop|drop|keep)::
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By default, or when the option is set to 'stop', the command
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errors out on an input e-mail message lacking a patch
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and stops into the middle of the current am session. When this
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option is set to 'drop', skip such an e-mail message instead.
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When this option is set to 'keep', create an empty commit,
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recording the contents of the e-mail message as its log.
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-m::
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--message-id::
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Pass the `-m` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]),
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so that the Message-ID header is added to the commit message.
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The `am.messageid` configuration variable can be used to specify
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the default behaviour.
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--no-message-id::
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Do not add the Message-ID header to the commit message.
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`no-message-id` is useful to override `am.messageid`.
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-q::
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--quiet::
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Be quiet. Only print error messages.
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-u::
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--utf8::
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Pass `-u` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
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The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
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is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
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`i18n.commitEncoding` can be used to specify project's
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preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
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+
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This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
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default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this.
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--no-utf8::
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Pass `-n` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see
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linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
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-3::
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--3way::
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--no-3way::
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When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
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3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs
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it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs
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available locally. `--no-3way` can be used to override
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am.threeWay configuration variable. For more information,
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see am.threeWay in linkgit:git-config[1].
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include::rerere-options.txt[]
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--ignore-space-change::
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--ignore-whitespace::
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--whitespace=<option>::
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-C<n>::
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-p<n>::
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--directory=<dir>::
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--exclude=<path>::
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--include=<path>::
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--reject::
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These flags are passed to the 'git apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1])
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program that applies
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the patch.
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--patch-format::
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By default the command will try to detect the patch format
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automatically. This option allows the user to bypass the automatic
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detection and specify the patch format that the patch(es) should be
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interpreted as. Valid formats are mbox, mboxrd,
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stgit, stgit-series and hg.
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-i::
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--interactive::
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Run interactively.
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-n::
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--no-verify::
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By default, the pre-applypatch and applypatch-msg hooks are run.
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When any of `--no-verify` or `-n` is given, these are bypassed.
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See also linkgit:githooks[5].
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--committer-date-is-author-date::
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By default the command records the date from the e-mail
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message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
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commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
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user to lie about the committer date by using the same
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value as the author date.
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--ignore-date::
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By default the command records the date from the e-mail
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message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
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commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
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user to lie about the author date by using the same
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value as the committer date.
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--skip::
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Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
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restarting an aborted patch.
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-S[<keyid>]::
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--gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
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--no-gpg-sign::
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GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and
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defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be
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stuck to the option without a space. `--no-gpg-sign` is useful to
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countermand both `commit.gpgSign` configuration variable, and
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earlier `--gpg-sign`.
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--continue::
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-r::
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--resolved::
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After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
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conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
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the index file stores the result of the application.
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Make a commit using the authorship and commit log
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extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
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file, and continue.
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--resolvemsg=<msg>::
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When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed
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to the screen before exiting. This overrides the
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standard message informing you to use `--continue`
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or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely
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for internal use between 'git rebase' and 'git am'.
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--abort::
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Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation.
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Revert contents of files involved in the am operation to their
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pre-am state.
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--quit::
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Abort the patching operation but keep HEAD and the index
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untouched.
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--show-current-patch[=(diff|raw)]::
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Show the message at which `git am` has stopped due to
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conflicts. If `raw` is specified, show the raw contents of
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the e-mail message; if `diff`, show the diff portion only.
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Defaults to `raw`.
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--allow-empty::
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After a patch failure on an input e-mail message lacking a patch,
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create an empty commit with the contents of the e-mail message
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as its log message.
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DISCUSSION
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----------
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The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
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message, and commit author date is taken from the "Date: " line
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of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of
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the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
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The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the
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commit is about in one line of text.
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"From: ", "Date: ", and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the
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respective commit author name and title values taken from the headers.
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The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
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"Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
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where the patch begins. Excess whitespace at the end of each
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line is automatically stripped.
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The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
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message. Any line that is of the form:
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* three-dashes and end-of-line, or
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* a line that begins with "diff -", or
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* a line that begins with "Index: "
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is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
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is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.
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When initially invoking `git am`, you give it the names of the mailboxes
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to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
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aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways:
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. skip the current patch by re-running the command with the `--skip`
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option.
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. hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
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the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should
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have produced. Then run the command with the `--continue` option.
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The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current
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operation is finished, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
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run `git am --abort` before running the command with mailbox
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names.
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Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the
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current branch. This is useful if you have problems with multiple
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commits, like running 'git am' on the wrong branch or an error in the
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commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g.
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errors in the "From:" lines).
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HOOKS
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-----
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This command can run `applypatch-msg`, `pre-applypatch`,
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and `post-applypatch` hooks. See linkgit:githooks[5] for more
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information.
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CONFIGURATION
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-------------
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include::includes/cmd-config-section-all.txt[]
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include::config/am.txt[]
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SEE ALSO
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--------
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linkgit:git-apply[1],
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linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
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GIT
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---
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
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