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>] <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-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 'git 33 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<msg>:: 50 The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually 51 except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject. 52 53<patch>:: 54 The patch extracted from e-mail. 55 56 57Author 58------ 59Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and 60Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 61 62 63Documentation 64-------------- 65Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 66 67GIT 68--- 69Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite