6 git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message
11 'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch>
16 Reads 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 am'
20 to create a commit. It is usually not necessary to use this
21 command directly. See linkgit:git-am[1] instead.
27 Usually the program removes email cruft from the Subject:
28 header line to extract the title line for the commit log
29 message. This option prevents this munging, and is most
30 useful when used to read back 'git format-patch -k' output.
32 Specifically, the following are removed until none of them remain:
35 * Leading and trailing whitespace.
37 * Leading `Re:`, `re:`, and `:`.
39 * Leading bracketed strings (between `[` and `]`, usually
43 Finally, runs of whitespace are normalized to a single ASCII space
47 When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with '['
48 and ']' pairs are stripped. This option limits the stripping to
49 only the pairs whose bracketed string contains the word "PATCH".
52 The commit log message, author name and author email are
53 taken from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME
54 transfer encoding, re-coded in the charset specified by
55 i18n.commitencoding (defaulting to UTF-8) by transliterating
56 them. This used to be optional but now it is the default.
58 Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset
59 conversion, even with this flag.
61 --encoding=<encoding>::
62 Similar to -u. But when re-coding, the charset specified here is
63 used instead of the one specified by i18n.commitencoding or UTF-8.
66 Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata.
69 Remove everything in body before a scissors line. A line that
70 mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and perforation
71 (dash "-") marks is called a scissors line, and is used to request
72 the reader to cut the message at that line. If such a line
73 appears in the body of the message before the patch, everything
74 before it (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when
77 This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion thread
78 with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to
79 conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the
80 beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line.
82 This can enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors.
85 Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings.
88 The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
89 except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.
92 The patch extracted from e-mail.
96 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite