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.SH "NAME"
git-quiltimport \- Applies a quilt patchset onto the current branch
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
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.nf
\fIgit quiltimport\fR [\-\-dry\-run | \-n] [\-\-author <author>] [\-\-patches <dir>]
                [\-\-series <file>] [\-\-keep\-non\-patch]
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.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\&.
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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\&.
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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
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\-\-author \fIAuthor Name <Author Email>\fR
.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\&.
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The default for the patch directory is
\fIpatches\fR
or the value of the
\fB$QUILT_PATCHES\fR
environment variable\&.
.RE
.PP
\-\-series <file>
.RS 4
The quilt series file\&.
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The default for the series file is <patches>/series or the value of the
\fB$QUILT_SERIES\fR
environment variable\&.
.RE
.PP
\-\-keep\-non\-patch
.RS 4
Pass
\fB\-b\fR
flag to
\fIgit mailinfo\fR
(see
\fBgit-mailinfo\fR(1))\&.
.RE
.SH "GIT"
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Part of the \fBgit\fR(1) suite