| git-mailinfo(1) |
| =============== |
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| NAME |
| ---- |
| git-mailinfo - Extracts patch from a single e-mail message |
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| SYNOPSIS |
| -------- |
| 'git-mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding>] <msg> <patch> |
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| DESCRIPTION |
| ----------- |
| Reading a single e-mail message from the standard input, and |
| writes the commit log message in <msg> file, and the patches in |
| <patch> file. The author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are |
| written out to the standard output to be used by git-applypatch |
| to create a commit. It is usually not necessary to use this |
| command directly. |
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| OPTIONS |
| ------- |
| -k:: |
| Usually the program 'cleans up' the Subject: header line |
| to extract the title line for the commit log message, |
| among which (1) remove 'Re:' or 're:', (2) leading |
| whitespaces, (3) '[' up to ']', typically '[PATCH]', and |
| then prepends "[PATCH] ". This flag forbids this |
| munging, and is most useful when used to read back 'git |
| format-patch --mbox' output. |
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| -u:: |
| By default, the commit log message, author name and |
| author email are taken from the e-mail without any |
| charset conversion, after minimally decoding MIME |
| transfer encoding. This flag causes the resulting |
| commit to be encoded in the encoding specified by |
| i18n.commitencoding configuration (defaults to utf-8) by |
| transliterating them. |
| Note that the patch is always used as is without charset |
| conversion, even with this flag. |
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| --encoding=<encoding>:: |
| Similar to -u but if the local convention is different |
| from what is specified by i18n.commitencoding, this flag |
| can be used to override it. |
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| <msg>:: |
| The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually |
| except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject. |
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| <patch>:: |
| The patch extracted from e-mail. |
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| Author |
| ------ |
| Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and |
| Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> |
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| Documentation |
| -------------- |
| Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. |
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| GIT |
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| Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite |
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