NAME

       git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox

SYNOPSIS

       git am [--signoff] [--keep] [--[no-]keep-cr] [--[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>] [--include=<path>] [--reject] [-q | --quiet]
                [--[no-]scissors]
                [(<mbox> | <Maildir>)...]
       git am (--continue | --skip | --abort)

DESCRIPTION

       Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message, authorship information and
       patches, and applies them to the current branch.

OPTIONS

       (<mbox>|<Maildir>)...
           The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not supply this argument,
           the command reads from the standard input. If you supply directories, they will be
           treated as Maildirs.

       -s, --signoff
           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 git-mailinfo(1)).

       --keep-non-patch
           Pass -b flag to git mailinfo (see git-mailinfo(1)).

       --[no-]keep-cr
           With --keep-cr, call git mailsplit (see 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 git-mailinfo(1)).

       --no-scissors
           Ignore scissors lines (see git-mailinfo(1)).

       -q, --quiet
           Be quiet. Only print error messages.

       -u, --utf8
           Pass -u flag to git mailinfo (see 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 can use
           --no-utf8 to override this.

       --no-utf8
           Pass -n flag to git mailinfo (see 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 available
           locally.

       --ignore-date, --ignore-space-change, --ignore-whitespace, --whitespace=<option>, -C<n>,
       -p<n>, --directory=<dir>, --exclude=<path>, --include=<path>, --reject
           These flags are passed to the git apply (see git-apply(1)) program that applies the
           patch.

       -i, --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 conflicting patch), the user has
           applied it by hand and the index file stores the result of the application. Make a
           commit using the authorship and commit log extracted from the e-mail message and the
           current index file, and continue.

       --resolvemsg=<msg>
           When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed to the screen before exiting. This
           overrides the standard message informing you to use --continue or --skip to handle the
           failure. This is solely 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
       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>]". The "Subject: "
       line is supposed to concisely describe what the commit is about in one line of text.

       "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 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
       the form:

       •   three-dashes and end-of-line, or

       •   a line that begins with "diff -", or

       •   a line that begins with "Index: "

       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 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:

        1. skip the current patch by re-running the command with the --skip option.

        2. hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update the index file to bring
           it into a state that the patch should have produced. Then run the command with the
           --continue option.

       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

       git-apply(1).

GIT

       Part of the git(1) suite