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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-10-23 14:45:54 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-10-23 14:45:54 -0700 |
| commit | 33be82183d4cd6dc645f64da1402cf9a3f4cdbf3 (patch) | |
| tree | 4a681cad5c6da23a7d7f56022666fb31397026d2 /git-am.txt | |
| parent | 359f02427091f2c0fcac4eb7651fe5d159b84a54 (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-33be82183d4cd6dc645f64da1402cf9a3f4cdbf3.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v2.42.0-482-g2e8e7
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diff --git a/git-am.txt b/git-am.txt index 900be198b..0390dab20 100644 --- a/git-am.txt +++ b/git-am.txt @@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message, -authorship information and patches, and applies them to the +Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log messages, +authorship information, and patches, and applies them to the current branch. You could think of it as a reverse operation of linkgit:git-format-patch[1] run on a branch with a straight history without merges. @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ OPTIONS --empty=(stop|drop|keep):: By default, or when the option is set to 'stop', the command errors out on an input e-mail message lacking a patch - and stops into the middle of the current am session. When this + and stops in the middle of the current am session. When this option is set to 'drop', skip such an e-mail message instead. When this option is set to 'keep', create an empty commit, recording the contents of the e-mail message as its log. @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ OPTIONS Pass `-u` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable - `i18n.commitEncoding` can be used to specify project's + `i18n.commitEncoding` can be used to specify the project's preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8). + This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ include::rerere-options.txt[] automatically. This option allows the user to bypass the automatic detection and specify the patch format that the patch(es) should be interpreted as. Valid formats are mbox, mboxrd, - stgit, stgit-series and hg. + stgit, stgit-series, and hg. -i:: --interactive:: @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ include::rerere-options.txt[] --abort:: Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation. - Revert contents of files involved in the am operation to their + Revert the contents of files involved in the am operation to their pre-am state. --quit:: |