Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt

   1 git-mailinfo(1)
   2 ===============
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-mailinfo - Extracts patch from a single e-mail message.
   7
   8
   9 SYNOPSIS
  10 --------
  11 'git-mailinfo' [-k] [-u] <msg> <patch>
  12
  13
  14 DESCRIPTION
  15 -----------
  16 Reading a single e-mail message from the standard input, and
  17 writes the commit log message in <msg> file, and the patches in
  18 <patch> file.  The author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are
  19 written out to the standard output to be used by git-applypatch
  20 to create a commit.  It is usually not necessary to use this
  21 command directly.
  22
  23
  24 OPTIONS
  25 -------
  26 -k::
  27         Usually the program 'cleans up' the Subject: header line
  28         to extract the title line for the commit log message,
  29         among which (1) remove 'Re:' or 're:', (2) leading
  30         whitespaces, (3) '[' up to ']', typically '[PATCH]', and
  31         then prepends "[PATCH] ".  This flag forbids this
  32         munging, and is most useful when used to read back 'git
  33         format-patch --mbox' output.
  34
  35 -u::
  36         By default, the commit log message, author name and
  37         author email are taken from the e-mail without any
  38         charset conversion, after minimally decoding MIME
  39         transfer encoding.  This flag causes the resulting
  40         commit to be encoded in utf-8 by transliterating them.
  41         Note that the patch is always used as is without charset
  42         conversion, even with this flag.
  43
  44 <msg>::
  45         The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
  46         except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.
  47
  48 <patch>::
  49         The patch extracted from e-mail.
  50
  51
  52 Author
  53 ------
  54 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
  55 Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
  56
  57
  58 Documentation
  59 --------------
  60 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
  61
  62 GIT
  63 ---
  64 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
  65