NAME
git-applypatch - Apply one patch extracted from an e-mail
SYNOPSIS
git-applypatch <msg> <patch> <info> [<signoff>]
DESCRIPTION
This is usually not what an end user wants to run directly. See git-am(1) instead.
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 hooks[1] for more information.
OPTIONS
<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
Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
GIT
Part of the git(7) suite
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