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|-b] [-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-b:: 36 When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with '[' 37 and ']' pairs are stripped. This option limits the stripping to 38 only the pairs whose bracketed string contains the word "PATCH". 39 40-u:: 41 The commit log message, author name and author email are 42 taken from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME 43 transfer encoding, re-coded in the charset specified by 44 i18n.commitencoding (defaulting to UTF-8) by transliterating 45 them. This used to be optional but now it is the default. 46+ 47Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset 48conversion, even with this flag. 49 50--encoding=<encoding>:: 51 Similar to -u. But when re-coding, the charset specified here is 52 used instead of the one specified by i18n.commitencoding or UTF-8. 53 54-n:: 55 Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata. 56 57--scissors:: 58 Remove everything in body before a scissors line. A line that 59 mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and perforation 60 (dash "-") marks is called a scissors line, and is used to request 61 the reader to cut the message at that line. If such a line 62 appears in the body of the message before the patch, everything 63 before it (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when 64 this option is used. 65+ 66This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion thread 67with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to 68conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the 69beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line. 70+ 71This can enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors. 72 73--no-scissors:: 74 Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings. 75 76<msg>:: 77 The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually 78 except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject. 79 80<patch>:: 81 The patch extracted from e-mail. 82 83 84Author 85------ 86Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and 87Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 88 89 90Documentation 91-------------- 92Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 93 94GIT 95--- 96Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite