Merge branch 'maint-1.6.6' into maint

[git.git] / Documentation / git-mailinfo.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
index 823ab82b5e88c76d359db600b0d0f506758fca0c..e3d58cbac3f162cc01d8731485f220fd70fed17b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch>
+'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch>
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
 Reads 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-am'
+written out to the standard output to be used by 'git am'
 to create a commit.  It is usually not necessary to use this
 command directly.  See linkgit:git-am[1] instead.
 
@@ -30,7 +30,12 @@ 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-format-patch -k' output.
+       'git format-patch -k' output.
+
+-b::
+       When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with '['
+       and ']' pairs are stripped.  This option limits the stripping to
+       only the pairs whose bracketed string contains the word "PATCH".
 
 -u::
        The commit log message, author name and author email are
@@ -62,6 +67,11 @@ This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion thread
 with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to
 conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the
 beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line.
++
+This can enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors.
+
+--no-scissors::
+       Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings.
 
 <msg>::
        The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually