6 git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message
11 'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] <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 '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
33 'git-format-patch -k' output.
36 When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with '['
37 and ']' pairs are stripped. This option limits the stripping to
38 only the pairs whose bracketed string contains the word "PATCH".
41 The commit log message, author name and author email are
42 taken from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME
43 transfer encoding, re-coded in UTF-8 by transliterating
44 them. This used to be optional but now it is the default.
46 Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset
47 conversion, even with this flag.
49 --encoding=<encoding>::
50 Similar to -u but if the local convention is different
51 from what is specified by i18n.commitencoding, this flag
52 can be used to override it.
55 Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata.
58 The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
59 except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.
62 The patch extracted from e-mail.
67 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
68 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
73 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
77 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite