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    <title>git-quiltimport(1)</title>
        <indexterm>
                <primary>git-quiltimport(1)</primary>
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<simplesect id="_name">
<title>NAME</title>
<simpara>git-quiltimport - Applies a quilt patchset onto the current branch</simpara>
</simplesect>
<simplesect id="_synopsis">
<title>SYNOPSIS</title>
<blockquote>
<literallayout><emphasis>git quiltimport</emphasis> [--dry-run] [--author &lt;author&gt;] [--patches &lt;dir&gt;]</literallayout>
</blockquote>
</simplesect>
<simplesect id="_description">
<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<simpara>Applies a quilt patchset onto the current git branch, preserving
the patch boundaries, patch order, and patch descriptions present
in the quilt patchset.</simpara>
<simpara>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.</simpara>
<simpara>If a subject is not found in the patch description the patch name is
preserved as the 1 line subject in the git description.</simpara>
</simplesect>
<simplesect id="_options">
<title>OPTIONS</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>
-n
</term>
<term>
--dry-run
</term>
<listitem>
<simpara>
        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.
</simpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
--author Author Name &lt;Author Email&gt;
</term>
<listitem>
<simpara>
        The author name and email address to use when no author
        information can be found in the patch description.
</simpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
--patches &lt;dir&gt;
</term>
<listitem>
<simpara>
        The directory to find the quilt patches and the
        quilt series file.
</simpara>
<simpara>The default for the patch directory is patches
or the value of the $QUILT_PATCHES environment
variable.</simpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</simplesect>
<simplesect id="_author">
<title>Author</title>
<simpara>Written by Eric Biederman &lt;<ulink url="mailto:ebiederm@lnxi.com">ebiederm@lnxi.com</ulink>&gt;</simpara>
</simplesect>
<simplesect id="_documentation">
<title>Documentation</title>
<simpara>Documentation by Eric Biederman &lt;<ulink url="mailto:ebiederm@lnxi.com">ebiederm@lnxi.com</ulink>&gt;</simpara>
</simplesect>
<simplesect id="_git">
<title>GIT</title>
<simpara>Part of the <xref linkend="git(1)"/> suite</simpara>
</simplesect>
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