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1 git-mailinfo(1)
2 ===============
4 NAME
5 ----
6 git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message
9 SYNOPSIS
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11 'git-mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding>] <msg> <patch>
14 DESCRIPTION
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16 Reading a single e-mail message from the standard input, and
17 writes the commit log message in <msg> file, and the patches in
18 <patch> file. The author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are
19 written out to the standard output to be used by git-am
20 to create a commit. It is usually not necessary to use this
21 command directly. See linkgit:git-am[1] instead.
24 OPTIONS
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26 -k::
27 Usually the program 'cleans up' the Subject: header line
28 to extract the title line for the commit log message,
29 among which (1) remove 'Re:' or 're:', (2) leading
30 whitespaces, (3) '[' up to ']', typically '[PATCH]', and
31 then prepends "[PATCH] ". This flag forbids this
32 munging, and is most useful when used to read back 'git
33 format-patch -k' output.
35 -u::
36 The commit log message, author name and author email are
37 taken from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME
38 transfer encoding, re-coded in UTF-8 by transliterating
39 them. This used to be optional but now it is the default.
40 +
41 Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset
42 conversion, even with this flag.
44 --encoding=<encoding>::
45 Similar to -u but if the local convention is different
46 from what is specified by i18n.commitencoding, this flag
47 can be used to override it.
49 <msg>::
50 The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
51 except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.
53 <patch>::
54 The patch extracted from e-mail.
57 Author
58 ------
59 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
60 Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
63 Documentation
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65 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
67 GIT
68 ---
69 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite