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406 git-mailinfo(
1) Manual Page
409 <div class=
"sectionbody">
411 Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message
415 <h2 id=
"_synopsis">SYNOPSIS
</h2>
416 <div class=
"sectionbody">
417 <div class=
"verseblock">
418 <div class=
"verseblock-content"><em>git mailinfo
</em> [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=
<encoding
> | -n] [--scissors]
<msg
> <patch
></div>
419 <div class=
"verseblock-attribution">
422 <h2 id=
"_description">DESCRIPTION
</h2>
423 <div class=
"sectionbody">
424 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>Reads a single e-mail message from the standard input, and
425 writes the commit log message in
<msg
> file, and the patches in
426 <patch
> file. The author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are
427 written out to the standard output to be used by
<em>git am
</em>
428 to create a commit. It is usually not necessary to use this
429 command directly. See
<a href=
"git-am.html">git-am(
1)
</a> instead.
</p></div>
431 <h2 id=
"_options">OPTIONS
</h2>
432 <div class=
"sectionbody">
433 <div class=
"dlist"><dl>
439 Usually the program
<em>cleans up
</em> the Subject: header line
440 to extract the title line for the commit log message,
441 among which (
1) remove
<em>Re:
</em> or
<em>re:
</em>, (
2) leading
442 whitespaces, (
3)
<em>[
</em> up to
<em>]
</em>, typically
<em>[PATCH]
</em>, and
443 then prepends
"[PATCH] ". This flag forbids this
444 munging, and is most useful when used to read back
445 <em>git format-patch -k
</em> output.
453 When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with
<em>[
</em>
454 and
<em>]
</em> pairs are stripped. This option limits the stripping to
455 only the pairs whose bracketed string contains the word
"PATCH".
463 The commit log message, author name and author email are
464 taken from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME
465 transfer encoding, re-coded in the charset specified by
466 i18n.commitencoding (defaulting to UTF-
8) by transliterating
467 them. This used to be optional but now it is the default.
469 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset
470 conversion, even with this flag.
</p></div>
473 --encoding=
<encoding
>
477 Similar to -u. But when re-coding, the charset specified here is
478 used instead of the one specified by i18n.commitencoding or UTF-
8.
486 Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata.
494 Remove everything in body before a scissors line. A line that
495 mainly consists of scissors (either
">8" or
"8<") and perforation
496 (dash
"-") marks is called a scissors line, and is used to request
497 the reader to cut the message at that line. If such a line
498 appears in the body of the message before the patch, everything
499 before it (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when
502 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion thread
503 with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to
504 conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the
505 beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line.
</p></div>
506 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>This can enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors.
</p></div>
513 Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings.
521 The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
522 except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.
530 The patch extracted from e-mail.
535 <h2 id=
"_git">GIT
</h2>
536 <div class=
"sectionbody">
537 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>Part of the
<a href=
"git.html">git(
1)
</a> suite
</p></div>
540 <div id=
"footer-text">
541 Last updated
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07-
23 00:
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