git-applymbox(1) ================ NAME ---- git-applymbox - Apply a series of patches in a mailbox SYNOPSIS -------- 'git-applymbox' [-u] [-k] [-q] [-m] ( -c .dotest/ | ) [ ] 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/:: 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/' flag to restart the process after inspecting and fixing them. :: 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. :: 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 Documentation -------------- Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list . GIT --- Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite