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ollydbg23
ollydbg23

Reputation: 1220

what does the "am" mean in the git command "git am"?

Does the "am" means "amend"?

But from the document, it just " Apply a series of patches from a mailbox".

So, another guess is: "a" means "apply", "m" means "mailbox"?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1824

Answers (2)

rob mayoff
rob mayoff

Reputation: 385870

The commit that added the original git-am.sh script to the git source code says

Add git-am, applymbox replacement.

It reorganizes the code and also has saner command line options syntax. Unlike git-applymbox, it can take more than one mailbox file from the command line, as well as reading from the standard input when '-' is specified.

So I think it's safe to say that “am” is an abbreviation for “apply mbox”.

Note that “mbox” is a specific mailbox file format, and the original script used the git mailsplit command, which parses the mbox format. So it might be less accurate to say “am” stands for “apply mailbox”.

Upvotes: 4

delaportePL
delaportePL

Reputation: 119

from https://git-scm.com/docs/git-am : "git-am" Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message, authorship information and patches, and applies them to the current branch.

Based on this the A would refer to Apply and the M to Mail.

Upvotes: 1

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