1 git-applymbox(1)
2 ================
4 NAME
5 ----
6 git-applymbox - Apply a series of patches in a mailbox
9 SYNOPSIS
10 --------
11 'git-applymbox' [-u] [-k] [-q] [-m] ( -c .dotest/<num> | <mbox> ) [ <signoff> ]
13 DESCRIPTION
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15 Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message,
16 authorship information and patches, and applies them to the
17 current branch.
20 OPTIONS
21 -------
22 -q::
23 Apply patches interactively. The user will be given
24 opportunity to edit the log message and the patch before
25 attempting to apply it.
27 -k::
28 Usually the program 'cleans up' the Subject: header line
29 to extract the title line for the commit log message,
30 among which (1) remove 'Re:' or 're:', (2) leading
31 whitespaces, (3) '[' up to ']', typically '[PATCH]', and
32 then prepends "[PATCH] ". This flag forbids this
33 munging, and is most useful when used to read back 'git
34 format-patch --mbox' output.
36 -m::
37 Patches are applied with `git-apply` command, and unless
38 it cleanly applies without fuzz, the processing fails.
39 With this flag, if a tree that the patch applies cleanly
40 is found in a repository, the patch is applied to the
41 tree and then a 3-way merge between the resulting tree
42 and the current tree.
44 -u::
45 Pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
46 The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
47 are re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
48 `i18n.commitencoding` can be used to specify project's
49 preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8). This used to be
50 optional but now it is the default.
51 +
52 Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset
53 conversion, even with this flag.
55 -n::
56 Pass `-n` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see
57 gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
59 -c .dotest/<num>::
60 When the patch contained in an e-mail does not cleanly
61 apply, the command exits with an error message. The
62 patch and extracted message are found in .dotest/, and
63 you could re-run 'git applymbox' with '-c .dotest/<num>'
64 flag to restart the process after inspecting and fixing
65 them.
67 <mbox>::
68 The name of the file that contains the e-mail messages
69 with patches. This file should be in the UNIX mailbox
70 format. See 'SubmittingPatches' document to learn about
71 the formatting convention for e-mail submission.
73 <signoff>::
74 The name of the file that contains your "Signed-off-by"
75 line. See 'SubmittingPatches' document to learn what
76 "Signed-off-by" line means. You can also just say
77 'yes', 'true', 'me', or 'please' to use an automatically
78 generated "Signed-off-by" line based on your committer
79 identity.
82 SEE ALSO
83 --------
84 gitlink:git-am[1], gitlink:git-applypatch[1].
87 Author
88 ------
89 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
91 Documentation
92 --------------
93 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
95 GIT
96 ---
97 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite