git-quiltimport - Man Page

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 patchset​.

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​.

If a subject is not found in the patch description the patch name is preserved 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

Info

09/28/2026 Git 2.56.0 Git Manual