6 git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message
12 'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n]
13 [--[no-]scissors] [--quoted-cr=<action>]
19 Reads a single e-mail message from the standard input, and
20 writes the commit log message in <msg> file, and the patches in
21 <patch> file. The author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are
22 written out to the standard output to be used by 'git am'
23 to create a commit. It is usually not necessary to use this
24 command directly. See linkgit:git-am[1] instead.
30 Usually the program removes email cruft from the Subject:
31 header line to extract the title line for the commit log
32 message. This option prevents this munging, and is most
33 useful when used to read back 'git format-patch -k' output.
35 Specifically, the following are removed until none of them remain:
38 * Leading and trailing whitespace.
40 * Leading `Re:`, `re:`, and `:`.
42 * Leading bracketed strings (between `[` and `]`, usually
46 Finally, runs of whitespace are normalized to a single ASCII space
50 When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with '['
51 and ']' pairs are stripped. This option limits the stripping to
52 only the pairs whose bracketed string contains the word "PATCH".
55 The commit log message, author name and author email are
56 taken from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME
57 transfer encoding, re-coded in the charset specified by
58 `i18n.commitEncoding` (defaulting to UTF-8) by transliterating
59 them. This used to be optional but now it is the default.
61 Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset
62 conversion, even with this flag.
64 --encoding=<encoding>::
65 Similar to -u. But when re-coding, the charset specified here is
66 used instead of the one specified by `i18n.commitEncoding` or UTF-8.
69 Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata.
73 Copy the Message-ID header at the end of the commit message. This
74 is useful in order to associate commits with mailing list discussions.
77 Remove everything in body before a scissors line (e.g. "-- >8 --").
78 The line represents scissors and perforation marks, and is used to
79 request the reader to cut the message at that line. If that line
80 appears in the body of the message before the patch, everything
81 before it (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when
84 This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion thread
85 with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to
86 conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the
87 beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line.
89 This can be enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors.
92 Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings.
94 --quoted-cr=<action>::
95 Action when processes email messages sent with base64 or
96 quoted-printable encoding, and the decoded lines end with a CRLF
97 instead of a simple LF.
99 The valid actions are:
102 * `nowarn`: Git will do nothing when such a CRLF is found.
103 * `warn`: Git will issue a warning for each message if such a CRLF is
105 * `strip`: Git will convert those CRLF to LF.
108 The default action could be set by configuration option `mailinfo.quotedCR`.
109 If no such configuration option has been set, `warn` will be used.
112 The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
113 except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.
116 The patch extracted from e-mail.
120 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite