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I believe noone uses git-applymbox, and noone definitely should, since it is supposed to be completely superseded and everything by its younger cousin git-am. The only known person in the universe to use it was Linus and he declared some time ago that he will try to use git-am instead in his famous dotest script. The trouble is that git-applymbox existence creates confusing UI. I'm a bit like a recycled newbie to the git porcelain and *I* was confused by git-applymbox primitiveness until I've realized a while later that I'm of course using the wrong command. Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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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] [--dotest=<dir>] [--keep] [--utf8 | --no-utf8]
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[--3way] [--interactive] [--binary]
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[--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>]
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<mbox>|<Maildir>...
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'git-am' [--skip | --resolved]
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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, reads from the standard input. If you supply
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directories, they'll be treated as Maildirs.
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-s, --signoff::
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Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
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the committer identity of yourself.
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-d=<dir>, --dotest=<dir>::
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Instead of `.dotest` directory, use <dir> as a working
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area to store extracted patches.
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-k, --keep::
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Pass `-k` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
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-u, --utf8::
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Pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink: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 could 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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gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
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-3, --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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-b, --binary::
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Pass `--allow-binary-replacement` flag to `git-apply`
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(see gitlink:git-apply[1]).
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--whitespace=<option>::
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This flag is passed to the `git-apply` (see gitlink:git-apply[1])
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program that applies
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the patch.
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-C<n>, -p<n>::
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These flags are passed to the `git-apply` (see gitlink:git-apply[1])
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program that applies
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the patch.
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-i, --interactive::
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Run interactively.
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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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-r, --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 `--resolved`
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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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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 time 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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It is supposed to describe what the commit is about concisely as
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a one line text.
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The body of the message (iow, after a blank line that terminates
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RFC2822 headers) can begin with "Subject: " and "From: " lines
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that are different from those of the mail header, to override
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the values of these fields.
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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 whitespaces at the end of the
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lines are 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 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 it, you give it names of the mailboxes
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to crunch. 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 '--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 in a state that the patch should
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have produced. Then run the command with '--resolved' option.
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The command refuses to process new mailboxes while `.dotest`
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directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
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run `rm -f .dotest` before running the command with mailbox
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names.
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SEE ALSO
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--------
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gitlink:git-applypatch[1], gitlink:git-apply[1].
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Author
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------
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Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Documentation
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--------------
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Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
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GIT
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---
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Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
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