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