NAME
git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail
message
SYNOPSIS
git mailinfo [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors]
<msg> <patch>
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 to create a commit. It is usually not
necessary to use this command directly. See git-am(1) instead.
OPTIONS
-k
Usually the program cleans up the Subject: header line to extract
the title line for the commit log message, among which (1) remove
Re: or re:, (2) leading 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.
-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 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 from what is
specified by i18n.commitencoding, this flag can be used to override
it.
-n
Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata.
--scissors
Remove everything in body before a scissors line. A line that
mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and perforation
(dash "-") marks is called a scissors line, and is used to request
the reader to cut the message at that line. If such a line appears
in the body of the message before the patch, everything before it
(including the scissors line itself) is ignored when this option is
used.
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 except the
title line which comes from e-mail Subject.
<patch>
The patch extracted from e-mail.
AUTHOR
Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org[1]> and Junio C Hamano
<gitster@pobox.com[2]>
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list
<git@vger.kernel.org[3]>.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
NOTES
1. torvalds@osdl.org
mailto:torvalds@osdl.org
2. gitster@pobox.com
mailto:gitster@pobox.com
3. git@vger.kernel.org
mailto:git@vger.kernel.org