NAME
----
-git-mailinfo - Some git command not yet documented.
+git-mailinfo - Extracts patch from a single e-mail message
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-mailinfo' [ --option ] <args>...
+'git-mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding>] <msg> <patch>
+
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Does something not yet documented.
+Reading 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-applypatch
+to create a commit. It is usually not necessary to use this
+command directly.
OPTIONS
-------
---option::
- Some option not yet documented.
+-k::
+ Usually the program 'cleans up' the Subject: header line
+ to extract the title line for the commit log message,
+ among which (1) remove 'Re:' or 're:', (2) leading
+ whitespaces, (3) '[' up to ']', typically '[PATCH]', and
+ then prepends "[PATCH] ". This flag forbids this
+ munging, and is most useful when used to read back 'git
+ format-patch --mbox' output.
+
+-u::
+ By default, the commit log message, author name and
+ author email are taken from the e-mail without any
+ charset conversion, after minimally decoding MIME
+ transfer encoding. This flag causes the resulting
+ commit to be encoded in the encoding specified by
+ i18n.commitencoding configuration (defaults to utf-8) by
+ transliterating them.
+ Note that the patch is always used as is without charset
+ conversion, even with this flag.
+
+--encoding=<encoding>::
+ Similar to -u but if the local convention is different
+ from what is specified by i18n.commitencoding, this flag
+ can be used to override it.
-<args>...::
- Some argument not yet documented.
+<msg>::
+ The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
+ except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.
+
+<patch>::
+ The patch extracted from e-mail.
Author
------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
+Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
+Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
+
Documentation
--------------
GIT
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-Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite