GIT-QUILTIMPORT(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so welcome to the GIT-QUILTIMPORT(1) page from the Git Manual, bestie — this is all about git-quiltimport, and its whole thing is applies a quilt patchset onto the current branch. slay. 🧚

✨ 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, and the whole vibe is preservation: it keeps the patch boundaries, the patch order, and the patch descriptions that are present in the quilt patchset. no cap, that's the main character energy here. 👑

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, then the patch description is displayed and the user is asked to interactively enter the author of the patch. so yeah, be ready to type, bestie. 😭

If a subject is not found in the patch description, the patch name is preserved as the 1 line subject in the Git description. keeping it cute and one-line, periodt. 💅

💅 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. lowkey a little safety lap. 🌈
• --author Author Name <Author Email> — the author name and email address to use when no author information can be found in the patch description. this is your fallback author moment. 🫶
• --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. environment variable said what it said. ✨

• --series <file> — the quilt series file.

The default for the series file is <patches>/series or the value of the $QUILT_SERIES environment variable. file path lore, but make it cozy. 🎀

• --keep-non-patch — pass -b flag to git mailinfo (see git-mailinfo(1)). literally just that. 💖

👑 GIT 👑

Part of the git(1) suite. iconic family reunion behavior. 🌟

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mwah 💋 that's the whole GIT-QUILTIMPORT(1) moment — from Git 2.56.0, dated 2026-09-27, and yes bestie, we ate and left no crumbs. 🍓