SYNOPSIS
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-'git
-mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding>] <msg> <patch>
+'git
mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] <msg> <patch>
DESCRIPTION
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-am
+written out to the standard output to be used by 'git-am'
to create a commit. It is usually not necessary to use this
command directly. See linkgit:git-am[1] instead.
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 -k' output.
+ munging, and is most useful when used to read back
+ 'git-format-patch -k' output.
-u::
The commit log message, author name and author email are
from what is specified by i18n.commitencoding, this flag
can be used to override it.
+-n::
+ Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata.
+
<msg>::
The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.
Author
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
-Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
+Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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