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+git-am(1)
+=========
+
+NAME
+----
+git-am - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox
+
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--[no-]keep-cr] [--[no-]utf8]
+	 [--[no-]3way] [--interactive] [--committer-date-is-author-date]
+	 [--ignore-date] [--ignore-space-change | --ignore-whitespace]
+	 [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] [--directory=<dir>]
+	 [--exclude=<path>] [--include=<path>] [--reject] [-q | --quiet]
+	 [--[no-]scissors] [-S[<keyid>]] [--patch-format=<format>]
+	 [(<mbox> | <Maildir>)...]
+'git am' (--continue | --skip | --abort | --quit | --show-current-patch[=(diff|raw)])
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message,
+authorship information and patches, and applies them to the
+current branch.
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+(<mbox>|<Maildir>)...::
+	The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
+	supply this argument, the command reads from the standard input.
+	If you supply directories, they will be treated as Maildirs.
+
+-s::
+--signoff::
+	Add a `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
+	the committer identity of yourself.
+	See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information.
+
+-k::
+--keep::
+	Pass `-k` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
+
+--keep-non-patch::
+	Pass `-b` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
+
+--[no-]keep-cr::
+	With `--keep-cr`, call 'git mailsplit' (see linkgit:git-mailsplit[1])
+	with the same option, to prevent it from stripping CR at the end of
+	lines. `am.keepcr` configuration variable can be used to specify the
+	default behaviour.  `--no-keep-cr` is useful to override `am.keepcr`.
+
+-c::
+--scissors::
+	Remove everything in body before a scissors line (see
+	linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). Can be activated by default using
+	the `mailinfo.scissors` configuration variable.
+
+--no-scissors::
+	Ignore scissors lines (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
+
+-m::
+--message-id::
+	Pass the `-m` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]),
+	so that the Message-ID header is added to the commit message.
+	The `am.messageid` configuration variable can be used to specify
+	the default behaviour.
+
+--no-message-id::
+	Do not add the Message-ID header to the commit message.
+	`no-message-id` is useful to override `am.messageid`.
+
+-q::
+--quiet::
+	Be quiet. Only print error messages.
+
+-u::
+--utf8::
+	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
+	preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
++
+This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
+default.   You can use `--no-utf8` to override this.
+
+--no-utf8::
+	Pass `-n` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see
+	linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]).
+
+-3::
+--3way::
+--no-3way::
+	When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
+	3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs
+	it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs
+	available locally. `--no-3way` can be used to override
+	am.threeWay configuration variable. For more information,
+	see am.threeWay in linkgit:git-config[1].
+
+--rerere-autoupdate::
+--no-rerere-autoupdate::
+	Allow the rerere mechanism to update the index with the
+	result of auto-conflict resolution if possible.
+
+--ignore-space-change::
+--ignore-whitespace::
+--whitespace=<option>::
+-C<n>::
+-p<n>::
+--directory=<dir>::
+--exclude=<path>::
+--include=<path>::
+--reject::
+	These flags are passed to the 'git apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1])
+	program that applies
+	the patch.
+
+--patch-format::
+	By default the command will try to detect the patch format
+	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.
+
+-i::
+--interactive::
+	Run interactively.
+
+--committer-date-is-author-date::
+	By default the command records the date from the e-mail
+	message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
+	commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
+	user to lie about the committer date by using the same
+	value as the author date.
+
+--ignore-date::
+	By default the command records the date from the e-mail
+	message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
+	commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
+	user to lie about the author date by using the same
+	value as the committer date.
+
+--skip::
+	Skip the current patch.  This is only meaningful when
+	restarting an aborted patch.
+
+-S[<keyid>]::
+--gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
+	GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and
+	defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be
+	stuck to the option without a space.
+
+--continue::
+-r::
+--resolved::
+	After a patch failure (e.g. attempting to apply
+	conflicting patch), the user has applied it by hand and
+	the index file stores the result of the application.
+	Make a commit using the authorship and commit log
+	extracted from the e-mail message and the current index
+	file, and continue.
+
+--resolvemsg=<msg>::
+	When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed
+	to the screen before exiting.  This overrides the
+	standard message informing you to use `--continue`
+	or `--skip` to handle the failure.  This is solely
+	for internal use between 'git rebase' and 'git am'.
+
+--abort::
+	Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation.
+
+--quit::
+	Abort the patching operation but keep HEAD and the index
+	untouched.
+
+--show-current-patch[=(diff|raw)]::
+	Show the message at which `git am` has stopped due to
+	conflicts.  If `raw` is specified, show the raw contents of
+	the e-mail message; if `diff`, show the diff portion only.
+	Defaults to `raw`.
+
+DISCUSSION
+----------
+
+The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
+message, and commit author date 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>]".
+The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the
+commit is about in one line of text.
+
+"From: ", "Date: ", and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the
+respective commit author name and title values taken from the headers.
+
+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 whitespace at the end of each
+line is automatically stripped.
+
+The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
+message.  Any line that is of the 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 `git am`, you give it the names of the mailboxes
+to process.  Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
+aborts in the middle.  You can recover from this in one of two ways:
+
+. skip the current patch by re-running the command with the `--skip`
+  option.
+
+. hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
+  the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should
+  have produced.  Then run the command with the `--continue` option.
+
+The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current
+operation is finished, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
+run `git am --abort` before running the command with mailbox
+names.
+
+Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the
+current branch.  This is useful if you have problems with multiple
+commits, like running 'git am' on the wrong branch or an error in the
+commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g.
+errors in the "From:" lines).
+
+HOOKS
+-----
+This command can run `applypatch-msg`, `pre-applypatch`,
+and `post-applypatch` hooks.  See linkgit:githooks[5] for more
+information.
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkgit:git-apply[1].
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite