On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
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> 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