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]
  13                [--[no-]scissors] [--quoted-cr=<action>]
  14                <msg> <patch>
  15
  16
  17 DESCRIPTION
  18 -----------
  19 Reads a single e-mail message from the standard input, and
  20 writes the commit log message in <msg> file, and the patches in
  21 <patch> file.  The author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are
  22 written out to the standard output to be used by 'git am'
  23 to create a commit.  It is usually not necessary to use this
  24 command directly.  See linkgit:git-am[1] instead.
  25
  26
  27 OPTIONS
  28 -------
  29 -k::
  30         Usually the program removes email cruft from the Subject:
  31         header line to extract the title line for the commit log
  32         message.  This option prevents this munging, and is most
  33         useful when used to read back 'git format-patch -k' output.
  34 +
  35 Specifically, the following are removed until none of them remain:
  36 +
  37 --
  38 *       Leading and trailing whitespace.
  39
  40 *       Leading `Re:`, `re:`, and `:`.
  41
  42 *       Leading bracketed strings (between `[` and `]`, usually
  43         `[PATCH]`).
  44 --
  45 +
  46 Finally, runs of whitespace are normalized to a single ASCII space
  47 character.
  48
  49 -b::
  50         When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with '['
  51         and ']' pairs are stripped.  This option limits the stripping to
  52         only the pairs whose bracketed string contains the word "PATCH".
  53
  54 -u::
  55         The commit log message, author name and author email are
  56         taken from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME
  57         transfer encoding, re-coded in the charset specified by
  58         `i18n.commitEncoding` (defaulting to UTF-8) by transliterating
  59         them.  This used to be optional but now it is the default.
  60 +
  61 Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset
  62 conversion, even with this flag.
  63
  64 --encoding=<encoding>::
  65         Similar to -u.  But when re-coding, the charset specified here is
  66         used instead of the one specified by `i18n.commitEncoding` or UTF-8.
  67
  68 -n::
  69         Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata.
  70
  71 -m::
  72 --message-id::
  73         Copy the Message-ID header at the end of the commit message.  This
  74         is useful in order to associate commits with mailing list discussions.
  75
  76 --scissors::
  77         Remove everything in body before a scissors line (e.g. "-- >8 --").
  78         The line represents scissors and perforation marks, and is used to
  79         request the reader to cut the message at that line.  If that line
  80         appears in the body of the message before the patch, everything
  81         before it (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when
  82         this option is used.
  83 +
  84 This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion thread
  85 with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to
  86 conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the
  87 beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line.
  88 +
  89 This can be enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors.
  90
  91 --no-scissors::
  92         Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings.
  93
  94 --quoted-cr=<action>::
  95         Action when processes email messages sent with base64 or
  96         quoted-printable encoding, and the decoded lines end with a CRLF
  97         instead of a simple LF.
  98 +
  99 The valid actions are:
 100 +
 101 --
 102 *       `nowarn`: Git will do nothing when such a CRLF is found.
 103 *       `warn`: Git will issue a warning for each message if such a CRLF is
 104         found.
 105 *       `strip`: Git will convert those CRLF to LF.
 106 --
 107 +
 108 The default action could be set by configuration option `mailinfo.quotedCR`.
 109 If no such configuration option has been set, `warn` will be used.
 110
 111 <msg>::
 112         The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
 113         except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.
 114
 115 <patch>::
 116         The patch extracted from e-mail.
 117
 118 CONFIGURATION
 119 -------------
 120
 121 include::includes/cmd-config-section-all.txt[]
 122
 123 include::config/mailinfo.txt[]
 124
 125 GIT
 126 ---
 127 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite