1git-mailinfo(1) 2=============== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-mailinfo - Extracts patch from a single e-mail message. 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-mailinfo' [-k] [-u] <msg> <patch> 12 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16Reading a single e-mail message from the standard input, and 17writes the commit log message in <msg> file, and the patches in 18<patch> file. The author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are 19written out to the standard output to be used by git-applypatch 20to create a commit. It is usually not necessary to use this 21command directly. 22 23 24OPTIONS 25------- 26-k:: 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 'git 33 format-patch --mbox' output. 34 35-u:: 36 By default, the commit log message, author name and 37 author email are taken from the e-mail without any 38 charset conversion, after minimally decoding MIME 39 transfer encoding. This flag causes the resulting 40 commit to be encoded in utf-8 by transliterating them. 41 Note that the patch is always used as is without charset 42 conversion, even with this flag. 43 44<msg>:: 45 The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually 46 except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject. 47 48<patch>:: 49 The patch extracted from e-mail. 50 51 52Author 53------ 54Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and 55Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 56 57 58Documentation 59-------------- 60Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 61 62GIT 63--- 64Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 65