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Petr Baudis 42e2cba204 Brief documentation for the mysterious git-am script
The git-am script is nowhere called and nowhere (including itself)
explained, and the name isn't helpful either. For those like me who will
wonder what is it about, add some documentation stub for it to the
documentation.

I probably got something wrong and I don't feel like investigating all the
options - this is just kind of "emergency" docs.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-20 22:32:07 -07:00

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git-applymbox(1)
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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::
By default, the commit log message, author name and
author email are taken from the e-mail without any
charset conversion, after minimally decoding MIME
transfer encoding. This flag causes the resulting
commit to be encoded in utf-8 by transliterating them.
Note that the patch is always used as is without charset
conversion, even with this flag.
-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
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Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite