# git-am vs. git-applymbox

1 messages from 2006-11-05 to 2006-11-05. Participants: Jakub Narebski.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/43436

## Jakub Narebski, 2006-11-05 12:10

Subject: git-am vs. git-applymbox
Message-ID: <eikkaq$au7$1@sea.gmane.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/eikkaq%24au7%241%40sea.gmane.org

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git-applymbox - Apply a series of patches in a mailbox
git-am        - Apply a series of patches in a mailbox

What are the differences between thos two commands, UI-wise and capability
(feature) wise? Which one should I use? Which one do _you_ use?


And why git has yet another set of commands which do the same (well,
git-annotate vs. git-blame "war" was won by git-blame, and git-pickaxe was
born).

By the way, could we standarize somewhat short options for git commands,
like -q for quiet, -v for verbose, -i for interactive, -S for pickaxe
(search in diff), -n for some kind of no-op/do nothing (e.g. --no-commit),
-f for force, -l for list, -k for skip errors/keep working even in the case
of errors? It would be nice to have this in Documentation/API somewhere...
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git


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