6 git-mailinfo - Extracts patch from a single e-mail message.
11 'git-mailinfo' [-k] [-u] <msg> <patch>
16 Reading 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-applypatch
20 to create a commit. It is usually not necessary to use this
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 'git
33 format-patch --mbox' output.
36 By default, the commit log message, author name and
37 author email are taken from the e-mail without any
38 charset conversion, after minimally decoding MIME
39 transfer encoding. This flag causes the resulting
40 commit to be encoded in utf-8 by transliterating them.
41 Note that the patch is always used as is without charset
42 conversion, even with this flag.
45 The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
46 except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.
49 The patch extracted from e-mail.
54 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
55 Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
60 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
64 Part of the link:git.html[git] suite