Merge 1.5.0.7 in

[git.git] / Documentation / git-am.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index 02cabc935e854c2a8b67481588e3e4ed6b853baa..148ce405681cd4f5bd38575b6a427a7e5745a109 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -3,13 +3,15 @@ git-am(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-am - Apply a series of patches in a mailbox
+git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git-am' [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--utf8] [--binary] [--3way] <mbox>...
+'git-am' [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--utf8 | --no-utf8] [--binary] [--3way]
+         [--interactive] [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>]
+        <mbox>...
 'git-am' [--skip | --resolved]
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -20,6 +22,10 @@ current branch.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
+<mbox>...::
+       The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
+       supply this argument, reads from the standard input.
+
 --signoff::
        Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
        the committer identity of yourself.
@@ -28,8 +34,21 @@ OPTIONS
        Instead of `.dotest` directory, use <dir> as a working
        area to store extracted patches.
 
---utf8, --keep::
-       Pass `-u` and `-k` flags to `git-mailinfo` (see
+--keep::
+       Pass `-k` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
+
+--utf8::
+       Pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
+       The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
+       are 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.
+
+--no-utf8::
+       Do not pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see
        gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
 
 --binary::
@@ -46,6 +65,14 @@ OPTIONS
        Skip the current patch.  This is only meaningful when
        restarting an aborted patch.
 
+--whitespace=<option>::
+       This flag is passed to the `git-apply` program that applies
+       the patch.
+
+-C<n>, -p<n>::
+       These flags are passed to the `git-apply` program that applies
+       the patch.
+
 --interactive::
        Run interactively, just like git-applymbox.
 
@@ -60,6 +87,33 @@ OPTIONS
 DISCUSSION
 ----------
 
+The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
+message, and commit author time 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 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.
+
+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.
+
+The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
+message.  Any line that is of form:
+
+* three-dashes and end-of-line, or
+* a line that begins with "diff -", or
+* a line that begins with "Index: "
+
+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, just like 'git-applymbox' does.  You can
@@ -80,7 +134,7 @@ names.
 
 SEE ALSO
 --------
-gitlink:git-applymbox[1], gitlink:git-applypatch[1].
+gitlink:git-applymbox[1], gitlink:git-applypatch[1], gitlink:git-apply[1].
 
 
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