NAME
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-git-mailinfo - Extracts patch from a single e-mail message
+git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message
SYNOPSIS
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
+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.
+command directly. See gitlink:git-am[1] instead.
OPTIONS
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.
+ format-patch -k' output.
-u::
The commit log message, author name and author email are
GIT
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Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
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