From: Erez Zilber Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:03:14 GMT Subject: Re: applying and committing patches in a single git command Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <487C752E.4090707@op5.se> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Erez Zilber wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Boaz Harrosh >> 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 Thanks.