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NAME
     git-quiltimport - Applies a quilt patchset onto the current branch

SYNOPSIS
     git quiltimport [--dry-run | -n] [--author <author>] [--patches <dir>]
		     [--series <file>] [--keep-non-patch]

DESCRIPTION
     Applies  a quilt patchset onto the current Git branch, preserving the patch
     boundaries, patch order, and patch descriptions present in the quilt patch-
     set.

     For each patch the code attempts to extract the author from the  patch  de-
     scription.	 If  that fails it falls back to the author specified with --au-
     thor. 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.

     If a subject is not found in the patch description the patch name	is  pre-
     served as the 1 line subject in the Git description.

OPTIONS
     -n, --dry-run
	 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.

     --author Author Name <Author Email>
	 The author name and email address to use when no author information can
	 be found in the patch description.

     --patches <dir>
	 The directory to find the quilt patches.

	 The  default  for  the	 patch	directory is patches or the value of the
	 $QUILT_PATCHES environment variable.

     --series <file>
	 The quilt series file.

	 The default for the series file is <patches>/series or the value of the
	 $QUILT_SERIES environment variable.

     --keep-non-patch
	 Pass -b flag to git mailinfo (see git-mailinfo(1)).

GIT
     Part of the git(1) suite

Git 2.55.0			   2026-06-29		      GIT-QUILTIMPORT(1)