Documentation/git-applypatch.txt

   1 git-applypatch(1)
   2 =================
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-applypatch - Apply one patch extracted from an e-mail.
   7
   8
   9 SYNOPSIS
  10 --------
  11 'git-applypatch' <msg> <patch> <info> [<signoff>]
  12
  13 DESCRIPTION
  14 -----------
  15 Takes three files <msg>, <patch>, and <info> prepared from an
  16 e-mail message by 'git-mailinfo', and creates a commit.  It is
  17 usually not necessary to use this command directly.
  18
  19 This command can run `applypatch-msg`, `pre-applypatch`, and
  20 `post-applypatch` hooks.  See link:hooks.html[hooks] for more
  21 information.
  22
  23
  24 OPTIONS
  25 -------
  26 <msg>::
  27         Commit log message (sans the first line, which comes
  28         from e-mail Subject stored in <info>).
  29
  30 <patch>::
  31         The patch to apply.
  32
  33 <info>::
  34         Author and subject information extracted from e-mail,
  35         used on "author" line and as the first line of the
  36         commit log message.
  37
  38
  39 Author
  40 ------
  41 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
  42
  43 Documentation
  44 --------------
  45 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
  46
  47 GIT
  48 ---
  49 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
  50