GIT-MAILINFO(1) Git Manual GIT-MAILINFO(1)NAMEgit-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 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 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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