Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt

   1 git-mailinfo(1)
   2 ===============
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message
   7
   8
   9 SYNOPSIS
  10 --------
  11 [verse]
  12 'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--[no-]scissors] <msg> <patch>
  13
  14
  15 DESCRIPTION
  16 -----------
  17 Reads a single e-mail message from the standard input, and
  18 writes the commit log message in <msg> file, and the patches in
  19 <patch> file.  The author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are
  20 written out to the standard output to be used by 'git am'
  21 to create a commit.  It is usually not necessary to use this
  22 command directly.  See linkgit:git-am[1] instead.
  23
  24
  25 OPTIONS
  26 -------
  27 -k::
  28         Usually the program removes email cruft from the Subject:
  29         header line to extract the title line for the commit log
  30         message.  This option prevents this munging, and is most
  31         useful when used to read back 'git format-patch -k' output.
  32 +
  33 Specifically, the following are removed until none of them remain:
  34 +
  35 --
  36 *       Leading and trailing whitespace.
  37
  38 *       Leading `Re:`, `re:`, and `:`.
  39
  40 *       Leading bracketed strings (between `[` and `]`, usually
  41         `[PATCH]`).
  42 --
  43 +
  44 Finally, runs of whitespace are normalized to a single ASCII space
  45 character.
  46
  47 -b::
  48         When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with '['
  49         and ']' pairs are stripped.  This option limits the stripping to
  50         only the pairs whose bracketed string contains the word "PATCH".
  51
  52 -u::
  53         The commit log message, author name and author email are
  54         taken from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME
  55         transfer encoding, re-coded in the charset specified by
  56         i18n.commitencoding (defaulting to UTF-8) by transliterating
  57         them.  This used to be optional but now it is the default.
  58 +
  59 Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset
  60 conversion, even with this flag.
  61
  62 --encoding=<encoding>::
  63         Similar to -u.  But when re-coding, the charset specified here is
  64         used instead of the one specified by i18n.commitencoding or UTF-8.
  65
  66 -n::
  67         Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata.
  68
  69 -m::
  70 --message-id::
  71         Copy the Message-ID header at the end of the commit message.  This
  72         is useful in order to associate commits with mailing list discussions.
  73
  74 --scissors::
  75         Remove everything in body before a scissors line (e.g. "-- >8 --").
  76         The line represents scissors and perforation marks, and is used to
  77         request the reader to cut the message at that line.  If that line
  78         appears in the body of the message before the patch, everything
  79         before it (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when
  80         this option is used.
  81 +
  82 This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion thread
  83 with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to
  84 conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the
  85 beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line.
  86 +
  87 This can be enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors.
  88
  89 --no-scissors::
  90         Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings.
  91
  92 <msg>::
  93         The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
  94         except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.
  95
  96 <patch>::
  97         The patch extracted from e-mail.
  98
  99 GIT
 100 ---
 101 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite