--- /dev/null
+git-quiltimport(1)
+================
+
+NAME
+----
+git-quiltimport - Applies a quilt patchset onto the current branch
+
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+'git-quiltimport' [--author <author>] [--patches <dir>]
+
+
+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
+-------
+--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 $QUILT_PATCHES environment
+ variable.
+
+Author
+------
+Written by Eric Biederman <ebiederm@lnxi.com>
+
+Documentation
+--------------
+Documentation by Eric Biederman <ebiederm@lnxi.com>
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+
--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/sh
+USAGE='--author <author> --patches </path/to/quilt/patch/directory>'
+SUBDIRECTORY_ON=Yes
+. git-sh-setup
+
+quilt_author=""
+while case "$#" in 0) break;; esac
+do
+ case "$1" in
+ --au=*|--aut=*|--auth=*|--autho=*|--author=*)
+ quilt_author=$(expr "$1" : '-[^=]*\(.*\)')
+ shift
+ ;;
+
+ --au|--aut|--auth|--autho|--author)
+ case "$#" in 1) usage ;; esac
+ shift
+ quilt_author="$1"
+ shift
+ ;;
+
+ --pa=*|--pat=*|--patc=*|--patch=*|--patche=*|--patches=*)
+ QUILT_PATCHES=$(expr "$1" : '-[^=]*\(.*\)')
+ shift
+ ;;
+
+ --pa|--pat|--patc|--patch|--patche|--patches)
+ case "$#" in 1) usage ;; esac
+ shift
+ QUILT_PATCHES="$1"
+ shift
+ ;;
+
+ *)
+ break
+ ;;
+ esac
+done
+
+# Quilt Author
+if [ -n "$quilt_author" ] ; then
+ quilt_author_name=$(expr "z$quilt_author" : 'z\(.*[^ ]\) *<.*') &&
+ quilt_author_email=$(expr "z$quilt_author" : '.*<\([^>]*\)') &&
+ test '' != "$quilt_author_name" &&
+ test '' != "$quilt_author_email" ||
+ die "malformatted --author parameter"
+fi
+
+# Quilt patch directory
+: ${QUILT_PATCHES:=patches}
+if ! [ -d "$QUILT_PATCHES" ] ; then
+ echo "The \"$QUILT_PATCHES\" directory does not exist."
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+# Temporay directories
+tmp_dir=.dotest
+tmp_msg="$tmp_dir/msg"
+tmp_patch="$tmp_dir/patch"
+tmp_info="$tmp_dir/info"
+
+
+# Find the intial commit
+commit=$(git-rev-parse HEAD)
+
+mkdir $tmp_dir || exit 2
+for patch_name in $(cat "$QUILT_PATCHES/series" | grep -v '^#'); do
+ echo $patch_name
+ (cat $QUILT_PATCHES/$patch_name | git-mailinfo "$tmp_msg" "$tmp_patch" > "$tmp_info") || exit 3
+
+ # Parse the author information
+ export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=$(sed -ne 's/Author: //p' "$tmp_info")
+ export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=$(sed -ne 's/Email: //p' "$tmp_info")
+ while test -z "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" && test -z "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" ; do
+ if [ -n "$quilt_author" ] ; then
+ GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$quilt_author_name";
+ GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$quilt_author_email";
+ else
+ echo "No author found in $patch_name";
+ echo "---"
+ cat $tmp_msg
+ echo -n "Author: ";
+ read patch_author
+
+ echo "$patch_author"
+
+ patch_author_name=$(expr "z$patch_author" : 'z\(.*[^ ]\) *<.*') &&
+ patch_author_email=$(expr "z$patch_author" : '.*<\([^>]*\)') &&
+ test '' != "$patch_author_name" &&
+ test '' != "$patch_author_email" &&
+ GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$patch_author_name" &&
+ GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$patch_author_email"
+ fi
+ done
+ export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE=$(sed -ne 's/Date: //p' "$tmp_info")
+ export SUBJECT=$(sed -ne 's/Subject: //p' "$tmp_info")
+ if [ -z "$SUBJECT" ] ; then
+ SUBJECT=$(echo $patch_name | sed -e 's/.patch$//')
+ fi
+
+ git-apply --index -C1 "$tmp_patch" &&
+ tree=$(git-write-tree) &&
+ commit=$((echo "$SUBJECT"; echo; cat "$tmp_msg") | git-commit-tree $tree -p $commit) &&
+ git-update-ref HEAD $commit || exit 4
+done
+rm -rf $tmp_dir || exit 5