'\" t .\" Title: git-quiltimport .\" Author: [FIXME: author] [see http://docbook.sf.net/el/author] .\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.75.2 <http://docbook.sf.net/> .\" Date: 08/19/2012 .\" Manual: Git Manual .\" Source: Git 1.7.12 .\" Language: English .\" .TH "GIT\-QUILTIMPORT" "1" "08/19/2012" "Git 1\&.7\&.12" "Git Manual" .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * Define some portability stuff .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673 .\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html .\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq .el .ds Aq ' .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * set default formatting .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" disable hyphenation .nh .\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only) .ad l .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE * .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .SH "NAME" git-quiltimport \- Applies a quilt patchset onto the current branch .SH "SYNOPSIS" .sp .nf \fIgit quiltimport\fR [\-\-dry\-run | \-n] [\-\-author <author>] [\-\-patches <dir>] .fi .sp .SH "DESCRIPTION" .sp Applies a quilt patchset onto the current git branch, preserving the patch boundaries, patch order, and patch descriptions present in the quilt patchset\&. .sp For each patch the code attempts to extract the author from the patch description\&. If that fails it falls back to the author specified with \-\-author\&. If the \-\-author flag was not given the patch description is displayed and the user is asked to interactively enter the author of the patch\&. .sp If a subject is not found in the patch description the patch name is preserved as the 1 line subject in the git description\&. .SH "OPTIONS" .PP \-n, \-\-dry\-run .RS 4 Walk through the patches in the series and warn if we cannot find all of the necessary information to commit a patch\&. At the time of this writing only missing author information is warned about\&. .RE .PP \-\-author Author Name <Author Email> .RS 4 The author name and email address to use when no author information can be found in the patch description\&. .RE .PP \-\-patches <dir> .RS 4 The directory to find the quilt patches and the quilt series file\&. .sp The default for the patch directory is patches or the value of the $QUILT_PATCHES environment variable\&. .RE .SH "GIT" .sp Part of the \fBgit\fR(1) suite