From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 21:38:37 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Merge branch 'va/mailinfo-doc-typofix' X-Git-Tag: v2.9.0-rc0~19 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/5bfc50d6fe58ec38f55efff43220dc3274b4629b?ds=inline;hp=-c Merge branch 'va/mailinfo-doc-typofix' Typofix. * va/mailinfo-doc-typofix: Documentation/git-mailinfo: fix typo --- 5bfc50d6fe58ec38f55efff43220dc3274b4629b diff --combined Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt index 0947084140,b6eb2ac261..3bbc731f67 --- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt @@@ -8,8 -8,7 +8,8 @@@ git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and autho SYNOPSIS -------- -'git mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding= | -n] [--scissors] +[verse] +'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding= | -n] [--[no-]scissors] DESCRIPTION @@@ -17,7 -16,7 +17,7 @@@ Reads a single e-mail message from the standard input, and writes the commit log message in file, and the patches in 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. @@@ -25,52 -24,31 +25,52 @@@ OPTIONS ------- -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 -k' output. + Usually the program removes email cruft from the Subject: + header line to extract the title line for the commit log + message. This option prevents this munging, and is most + useful when used to read back 'git format-patch -k' output. ++ +Specifically, the following are removed until none of them remain: ++ +-- +* Leading and trailing whitespace. + +* Leading `Re:`, `re:`, and `:`. + +* Leading bracketed strings (between `[` and `]`, usually + `[PATCH]`). +-- ++ +Finally, runs of whitespace are normalized to a single ASCII space +character. + +-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 - transfer encoding, re-coded in UTF-8 by transliterating + transfer encoding, re-coded in the charset specified by + i18n.commitencoding (defaulting to UTF-8) by transliterating them. This used to be optional but now it is the default. + Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset conversion, even with this flag. --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. + Similar to -u. But when re-coding, the charset specified here is + used instead of the one specified by i18n.commitencoding or UTF-8. -n:: Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata. +-m:: +--message-id:: + Copy the Message-ID header at the end of the commit message. This + is useful in order to associate commits with mailing list discussions. + --scissors:: Remove everything in body before a scissors line. A line that mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and perforation @@@ -85,7 -63,7 +85,7 @@@ with comments and suggestions on the me 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. + This can be enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors. --no-scissors:: Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings. @@@ -97,6 -75,17 +97,6 @@@ :: The patch extracted from e-mail. - -Author ------- -Written by Linus Torvalds and -Junio C Hamano - - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list . - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite