X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-mailinfo.txt;h=64aa6a1ea6bca248e7078efcecb3d582cf8a0f5f;hb=237ce836e770e8ead12a14ee4a8170009fa4a40b;hp=5088bbea84c0e6b681641b78b816755fa12f6b6d;hpb=c388761c153bc3e874e75f69ff77430164c038c4;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt index 5088bbea8..64aa6a1ea 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-mailinfo(1) NAME ---- -git-mailinfo - Extracts patch from a single e-mail message +git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message SYNOPSIS @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ DESCRIPTION Reading a single e-mail message from the standard input, and writes the commit log message in file, and the patches in 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 -command directly. +command directly. See gitlink:git-am[1] instead. OPTIONS @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ 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 --mbox' output. + format-patch -k' output. -u:: The commit log message, author name and author email are @@ -67,4 +67,3 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list . GIT --- Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite -