1git-mailinfo(1) 2=============== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 12'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch> 13 14 15DESCRIPTION 16----------- 17Reads a single e-mail message from the standard input, and 18writes the commit log message in <msg> file, and the patches in 19<patch> file. The author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are 20written out to the standard output to be used by 'git am' 21to create a commit. It is usually not necessary to use this 22command directly. See linkgit:git-am[1] instead. 23 24 25OPTIONS 26------- 27-k:: 28 Usually the program removes email cruft from the Subject: 29 header line to extract the title line for the commit log 30 message. This option prevents this munging, and is most 31 useful when used to read back 'git format-patch -k' output. 32+ 33Specifically, the following are removed until none of them remain: 34+ 35-- 36* Leading and trailing whitespace. 37 38* Leading `Re:`, `re:`, and `:`. 39 40* Leading bracketed strings (between `[` and `]`, usually 41 `[PATCH]`). 42-- 43+ 44Finally, runs of whitespace are normalized to a single ASCII space 45character. 46 47-b:: 48 When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with '[' 49 and ']' pairs are stripped. This option limits the stripping to 50 only the pairs whose bracketed string contains the word "PATCH". 51 52-u:: 53 The commit log message, author name and author email are 54 taken from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME 55 transfer encoding, re-coded in the charset specified by 56 i18n.commitencoding (defaulting to UTF-8) by transliterating 57 them. This used to be optional but now it is the default. 58+ 59Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset 60conversion, even with this flag. 61 62--encoding=<encoding>:: 63 Similar to -u. But when re-coding, the charset specified here is 64 used instead of the one specified by i18n.commitencoding or UTF-8. 65 66-n:: 67 Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata. 68 69--scissors:: 70 Remove everything in body before a scissors line. A line that 71 mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and perforation 72 (dash "-") marks is called a scissors line, and is used to request 73 the reader to cut the message at that line. If such a line 74 appears in the body of the message before the patch, everything 75 before it (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when 76 this option is used. 77+ 78This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion thread 79with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to 80conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the 81beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line. 82+ 83This can enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors. 84 85--no-scissors:: 86 Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings. 87 88<msg>:: 89 The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually 90 except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject. 91 92<patch>:: 93 The patch extracted from e-mail. 94 95GIT 96--- 97Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite