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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-11-10 09:05:31 -0800 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-11-10 09:05:31 -0800 |
commit | 77f143bf3e218857ec8e5244d7e862e8e0c1a041 (patch) | |
tree | 9f720e61941241b53a4f258d0dc62e5a9a360aa8 /Documentation/git-am.txt | |
parent | cd9519bd2c5c666cfb3ec219ee0b47c83f26f3fe (diff) | |
parent | 633e3556ccbcc7e443f5e9194c4a830181696ef0 (diff) | |
download | git-77f143bf3e218857ec8e5244d7e862e8e0c1a041.tar.gz |
Merge 'build-in git-mktree'
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index e4a6b3a6f0..6d92cbee64 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -9,11 +9,13 @@ git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git-am' [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--keep] [--utf8 | --no-utf8] - [--3way] [--interactive] [--binary] - [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] - <mbox>|<Maildir>... -'git-am' [--skip | --resolved] +'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--utf8 | --no-utf8] + [--3way] [--interactive] [--committer-date-is-author-date] + [--ignore-date] + [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] [--directory=<dir>] + [--reject] + [<mbox> | <Maildir>...] +'git am' (--skip | --resolved | --abort) DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -25,62 +27,73 @@ 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 +-s:: +--signoff:: + Add a `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using the committer identity of yourself. --d=<dir>, --dotest=<dir>:: - Instead of `.dotest` directory, use <dir> as a working - area to store extracted patches. +-k:: +--keep:: + Pass `-k` flag to 'git-mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). --k, --keep:: - Pass `-k` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]). - --u, --utf8:: - Pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]). +-u:: +--utf8:: + 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 - gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]). + Pass `-n` flag to 'git-mailinfo' (see + linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). --3, --3way:: +-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 gitlink:git-apply[1]). - --whitespace=<option>:: - This flag is passed to the `git-apply` (see gitlink:git-apply[1]) - program that applies - the patch. - --C<n>, -p<n>:: - These flags are passed to the `git-apply` (see gitlink:git-apply[1]) +-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. --i, --interactive:: +-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. --r, --resolved:: +-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. @@ -93,30 +106,33 @@ 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 (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 @@ -125,31 +141,37 @@ 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` +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 .dotest` before running the command with mailbox +run `rm -f -r .git/rebase-apply` 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 -------- -gitlink:git-apply[1]. +linkgit:git-apply[1]. Author ------ -Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> +Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Documentation -------------- @@ -157,4 +179,4 @@ Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.o GIT --- -Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |