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 'cleans up' the Subject: header line 29 to extract the title line for the commit log message, 30 among which (1) remove 'Re:' or 're:', (2) leading 31 whitespaces, (3) '[' up to ']', typically '[PATCH]', and 32 then prepends "[PATCH] ". This flag forbids this 33 munging, and is most useful when used to read back 34 'git format-patch -k' output. 35 36-b:: 37 When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with '[' 38 and ']' pairs are stripped. This option limits the stripping to 39 only the pairs whose bracketed string contains the word "PATCH". 40 41-u:: 42 The commit log message, author name and author email are 43 taken from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME 44 transfer encoding, re-coded in the charset specified by 45 i18n.commitencoding (defaulting to UTF-8) by transliterating 46 them. This used to be optional but now it is the default. 47+ 48Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset 49conversion, even with this flag. 50 51--encoding=<encoding>:: 52 Similar to -u. But when re-coding, the charset specified here is 53 used instead of the one specified by i18n.commitencoding or UTF-8. 54 55-n:: 56 Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata. 57 58--scissors:: 59 Remove everything in body before a scissors line. A line that 60 mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and perforation 61 (dash "-") marks is called a scissors line, and is used to request 62 the reader to cut the message at that line. If such a line 63 appears in the body of the message before the patch, everything 64 before it (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when 65 this option is used. 66+ 67This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion thread 68with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to 69conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the 70beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line. 71+ 72This can enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors. 73 74--no-scissors:: 75 Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings. 76 77<msg>:: 78 The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually 79 except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject. 80 81<patch>:: 82 The patch extracted from e-mail. 83 84GIT 85--- 86Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite