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NAME
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NAME
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-git-mailinfo - Extracts patch from a single e-mail message.
+git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message
SYNOPSIS
SYNOPSIS
Reading a single e-mail message from the standard input, and
writes the commit log message in <msg> file, and the patches in
<patch> file. The author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are
Reading a single e-mail message from the standard input, and
writes the commit log message in <msg> file, and the patches in
<patch> file. The author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are
-written out to the standard output to be used by git-applypatch
+written out to the standard output to be used by git-am
to create a commit. It is usually not necessary to use this
to create a commit. It is usually not necessary to use this
-command directly.
+command directly. See gitlink:git-am[1] instead.
OPTIONS
OPTIONS
whitespaces, (3) '[' up to ']', typically '[PATCH]', and
then prepends "[PATCH] ". This flag forbids this
munging, and is most useful when used to read back 'git
whitespaces, (3) '[' up to ']', typically '[PATCH]', and
then prepends "[PATCH] ". This flag forbids this
munging, and is most useful when used to read back 'git
- format-patch --mbox' output.
+ format-patch -k' output.
-u::
-u::
- By default, the commit log message, author name and
- author email are taken from the e-mail without any
- charset conversion, after minimally decoding MIME
- transfer encoding. This flag causes the resulting
- commit to be encoded in the encoding specified by
- i18n.commitencoding configuration (defaults to utf-8) by
- transliterating them.
- Note that the patch is always used as is without charset
- conversion, even with this flag.
+ The commit log message, author name and author email are
+ taken from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME
+ transfer encoding, re-coded in UTF-8 by transliterating
+ them. This used to be optional but now it is the default.
++
+Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset
+conversion, even with this flag.
--encoding=<encoding>::
Similar to -u but if the local convention is different
--encoding=<encoding>::
Similar to -u but if the local convention is different
GIT
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Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
GIT
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Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
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