git/Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt
Jeff King 48bb914ed6 doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pages
The point of these sections is generally to:

  1. Give credit where it is due.

  2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or
     file bug reports.

But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they
are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer
can be gotten through shortlog or blame.  For (2), the
correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you
wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and
incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody
useless.

So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except
git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list
for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section
to give credit to the major contributors and point to
shortlog and blame for more information.

Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can
follow that to the main git manpage.
2011-03-11 10:59:16 -05:00

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git-quiltimport(1)
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NAME
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git-quiltimport - Applies a quilt patchset onto the current branch
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git quiltimport' [--dry-run | -n] [--author <author>] [--patches <dir>]
DESCRIPTION
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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 and the
quilt series file.
+
The default for the patch directory is patches
or the value of the $QUILT_PATCHES environment
variable.
GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite