1git-mailinfo(1) 2=============== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch> 12 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16Reads 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-am' 20to create a commit. It is usually not necessary to use this 21command directly. See linkgit:git-am[1] instead. 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 33 'git-format-patch -k' output. 34 35-u:: 36 The commit log message, author name and author email are 37 taken from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME 38 transfer encoding, re-coded in UTF-8 by transliterating 39 them. This used to be optional but now it is the default. 40+ 41Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset 42conversion, even with this flag. 43 44--encoding=<encoding>:: 45 Similar to -u but if the local convention is different 46 from what is specified by i18n.commitencoding, this flag 47 can be used to override it. 48 49-n:: 50 Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata. 51 52--scissors:: 53 Remove everything in body before a scissors line. A line that 54 mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and perforation 55 (dash "-") marks is called a scissors line, and is used to request 56 the reader to cut the message at that line. If such a line 57 appears in the body of the message before the patch, everything 58 before it (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when 59 this option is used. 60+ 61This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion thread 62with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to 63conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the 64beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line. 65+ 66This can enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors. 67 68--no-scissors:: 69 Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings. 70 71<msg>:: 72 The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually 73 except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject. 74 75<patch>:: 76 The patch extracted from e-mail. 77 78 79Author 80------ 81Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and 82Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 83 84 85Documentation 86-------------- 87Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 88 89GIT 90--- 91Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite