GIT-MAILINFO(1)                                                GIT-MAILINFO(1)



NAME
       git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail
       message

SYNOPSIS
       git mailinfo [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors]
       <msg> <patch>


DESCRIPTION
       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 to create a commit. It is usually not
       necessary to use this command directly. See git-am(1) instead.


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.


       -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 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=<encoding>
              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.


       --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.


       <patch>
              The patch extracted from e-mail.


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