SYNOPSIS
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-'git mailinfo' [-k
] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] <msg> <patch>
+'git mailinfo' [-k
|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch>
DESCRIPTION
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-Reading a single e-mail message from the standard input, and
+Reads a single e-mail message from the standard input, and
writes the commit log message in <msg> file, and the patches in
<patch> file. The author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are
written out to the standard output to be used by 'git-am'
munging, and is most useful when used to read back
'git-format-patch -k' output.
+-b::
+ When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with '['
+ and ']' pairs are stripped. This option limits the stripping to
+ only the pairs whose bracketed string contains the word "PATCH".
+
-u::
The commit log message, author name and author email are
taken from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME
-n::
Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata.
+--scissors::
+ Remove everything in body before a scissors line. A line that
+ mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and perforation
+ (dash "-") marks is called a scissors line, and is used to request
+ the reader to cut the message at that line. If such a line
+ appears in the body of the message before the patch, everything
+ before it (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when
+ this option is used.
++
+This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion thread
+with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to
+conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the
+beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line.
++
+This can enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors.
+
+--no-scissors::
+ Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings.
+
<msg>::
The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.