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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
10 --------
11 'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] <msg> <patch>
14 DESCRIPTION
15 -----------
16 Reads 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
25 -------
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
33 'git-format-patch -k' output.
35 -b::
36 When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with '['
37 and ']' pairs are stripped. This option limits the stripping to
38 only the pairs whose bracketed string contains the word "PATCH".
40 -u::
41 The commit log message, author name and author email are
42 taken from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME
43 transfer encoding, re-coded in UTF-8 by transliterating
44 them. This used to be optional but now it is the default.
45 +
46 Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset
47 conversion, even with this flag.
49 --encoding=<encoding>::
50 Similar to -u but if the local convention is different
51 from what is specified by i18n.commitencoding, this flag
52 can be used to override it.
54 -n::
55 Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata.
57 <msg>::
58 The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
59 except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.
61 <patch>::
62 The patch extracted from e-mail.
65 Author
66 ------
67 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
68 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
71 Documentation
72 --------------
73 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
75 GIT
76 ---
77 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite