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 | --encoding=<encoding>] <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 the encoding specified by 41 i18n.commitencoding configuration (defaults to utf-8) by 42 transliterating them. 43 Note that the patch is always used as is without charset 44 conversion, even with this flag. 45 46--encoding=<encoding>:: 47 Similar to -u but if the local convention is different 48 from what is specified by i18n.commitencoding, this flag 49 can be used to override it. 50 51<msg>:: 52 The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually 53 except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject. 54 55<patch>:: 56 The patch extracted from e-mail. 57 58 59Author 60------ 61Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and 62Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 63 64 65Documentation 66-------------- 67Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 68 69GIT 70--- 71Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 72