6 git-quiltimport - Applies a quilt patchset onto the current branch
12 'git-quiltimport' [--author <author>] [--patches <dir>]
17 Applies a quilt patchset onto the current git branch, preserving
18 the patch boundaries, patch order, and patch descriptions present
19 in the quilt patchset.
21 For each patch the code attempts to extract the author from the
22 patch description. If that fails it falls back to the author
23 specified with --author. If the --author flag was not given
24 the patch description is displayed and the user is asked to
25 interactively enter the author of the patch.
27 If a subject is not found in the patch description the patch name is
28 preserved as the 1 line subject in the git description.
32 --author Author Name <Author Email>::
33 The author name and email address to use when no author
34 information can be found in the patch description.
37 The directory to find the quilt patches and the
40 The default for the patch directory is patches
41 or the value of the $QUILT_PATCHES environment
46 Written by Eric Biederman <ebiederm@lnxi.com>
50 Documentation by Eric Biederman <ebiederm@lnxi.com>
54 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite