Re: applying and committing patches in a single git command

[Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>]

Erez Zilber wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> wrote:
>> Erez Zilber wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Someone created a patch with git-format-patch and sent it to me. I
>>> would like to apply & commit the patch. If I use git-apply, it only
>>> patches my tree without committing it. Now, I need to copy the commit
>>> log, run git-commit and paste the commit log there. Is there a more
>>> intelligent way to do that?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Erez
>>>
>> git-am, can take all bunch of them at once
>>
>> Boaz
>>
> 
> Thanks. I have 2 more questions:
> 1. How can I tell git-am to take a patch from an e-mail from a gmail account?

You can't, but you can save your gmail message to disc and pass
the saved file to "git am" (don't use "git-am" over "git am";
we're trying to get away from that old format of typing).

> 2. If I have the actual patch on my machine (not in an e-mail
> message), I guess that I need something else (not git-am). Is there
> anything like that?
> 

git apply patchfile
patch (-p1) < patchfile

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