Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt

git-mailinfo(1)
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NAME
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git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message


SYNOPSIS
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'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch>


DESCRIPTION
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Reads 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-am'
to create a commit.  It is usually not necessary to use this
command directly.  See linkgit:git-am[1] instead.


OPTIONS
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-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 -k' output.

-b::
	When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with '['
	and ']' pairs are stripped.  This option limits the stripping to
	only the pairs whose bracketed string contains the word "PATCH".

-u::
	The commit log message, author name and author email are
	taken from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME
	transfer encoding, re-coded in UTF-8 by transliterating
	them.  This used to be optional but now it is the default.
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Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset
conversion, even with this flag.

--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.

-n::
	Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata.

--scissors::
	Remove everything in body before a scissors line.  A line that
	mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and perforation
	(dash "-") marks is called a scissors line, and is used to request
	the reader to cut the message at that line.  If such a line
	appears in the body of the message before the patch, everything
	before it (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when
	this option is used.
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This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion thread
with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to
conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the
beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line.
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This can enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors.

--no-scissors::
	Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings.

<msg>::
	The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
	except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.

<patch>::
	The patch extracted from e-mail.


Author
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>


Documentation
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Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.

GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite