15dc5b5fb0
This reverts commit d96a275b91.
It used to be possible to apply a patch series with "git am mbox"
and then only after seeing a failure, switch to three-way mode via
"git am -3" (no other options or arguments). The commit being
reverted broke this workflow.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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git-am(1)
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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]
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[--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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[(<mbox> | <Maildir>)...]
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'git am' (--continue | --skip | --abort)
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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.
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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:` line to the commit message, using
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the committer identity of yourself.
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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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-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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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.
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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, 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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--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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GPG-sign commits.
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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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DISCUSSION
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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: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the respective
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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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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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SEE ALSO
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--------
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linkgit:git-apply[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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