1 git-mailinfo(1)
2 ===============
4 NAME
5 ----
6 git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message
9 SYNOPSIS
10 --------
11 [verse]
12 'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch>
15 DESCRIPTION
16 -----------
17 Reads a single e-mail message from the standard input, and
18 writes the commit log message in <msg> file, and the patches in
19 <patch> file. The author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are
20 written out to the standard output to be used by 'git am'
21 to create a commit. It is usually not necessary to use this
22 command directly. See linkgit:git-am[1] instead.
25 OPTIONS
26 -------
27 -k::
28 Usually the program 'cleans up' the Subject: header line
29 to extract the title line for the commit log message,
30 among which (1) remove 'Re:' or 're:', (2) leading
31 whitespaces, (3) '[' up to ']', typically '[PATCH]', and
32 then prepends "[PATCH] ". This flag forbids this
33 munging, and is most useful when used to read back
34 'git format-patch -k' output.
36 -b::
37 When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with '['
38 and ']' pairs are stripped. This option limits the stripping to
39 only the pairs whose bracketed string contains the word "PATCH".
41 -u::
42 The commit log message, author name and author email are
43 taken from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME
44 transfer encoding, re-coded in the charset specified by
45 i18n.commitencoding (defaulting to UTF-8) by transliterating
46 them. This used to be optional but now it is the default.
47 +
48 Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset
49 conversion, even with this flag.
51 --encoding=<encoding>::
52 Similar to -u. But when re-coding, the charset specified here is
53 used instead of the one specified by i18n.commitencoding or UTF-8.
55 -n::
56 Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata.
58 --scissors::
59 Remove everything in body before a scissors line. A line that
60 mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and perforation
61 (dash "-") marks is called a scissors line, and is used to request
62 the reader to cut the message at that line. If such a line
63 appears in the body of the message before the patch, everything
64 before it (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when
65 this option is used.
66 +
67 This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion thread
68 with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to
69 conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the
70 beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line.
71 +
72 This can enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors.
74 --no-scissors::
75 Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings.
77 <msg>::
78 The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
79 except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.
81 <patch>::
82 The patch extracted from e-mail.
84 GIT
85 ---
86 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite