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| .\" Date: 09/10/2018 |
| .\" Manual: Git Manual |
| .\" Source: Git 2.19.0 |
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| .TH "GIT\-QUILTIMPORT" "1" "09/10/2018" "Git 2\&.19\&.0" "Git Manual" |
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| .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>] |
| [\-\-series <file>] |
| .fi |
| .sp |
| .SH "DESCRIPTION" |
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| 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\&. |
| .sp |
| The default for the patch directory is patches or the value of the |
| \fB$QUILT_PATCHES\fR |
| environment variable\&. |
| .RE |
| .PP |
| \-\-series <file> |
| .RS 4 |
| The quilt series file\&. |
| .sp |
| The default for the series file is <patches>/series or the value of the |
| \fB$QUILT_SERIES\fR |
| environment variable\&. |
| .RE |
| .SH "GIT" |
| .sp |
| Part of the \fBgit\fR(1) suite |
