git/Documentation/git-applypatch.txt

git-applypatch(1)
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NAME
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git-applypatch - Apply one patch extracted from an e-mail.


SYNOPSIS
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'git-applypatch' <msg> <patch> <info> [<signoff>]

DESCRIPTION
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Takes three files <msg>, <patch>, and <info> prepared from an
e-mail message by 'git-mailinfo', and creates a commit.  It is
usually not necessary to use this command directly.

This command can run `applypatch-msg`, `pre-applypatch`, and
`post-applypatch` hooks.  See link:hooks.html[hooks] for more
information.


OPTIONS
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<msg>::
	Commit log message (sans the first line, which comes
	from e-mail Subject stored in <info>).

<patch>::
	The patch to apply.

<info>:
	Author and subject information extracted from e-mail,
	used on "author" line and as the first line of the
	commit log message.


Author
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Documentation
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Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.

GIT
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Part of the link:git.html[git] suite