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] [--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 --scissors::
  70         Remove everything in body before a scissors line.  A line that
  71         mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and perforation
  72         (dash "-") marks is called a scissors line, and is used to request
  73         the reader to cut the message at that line.  If such a line
  74         appears in the body of the message before the patch, everything
  75         before it (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when
  76         this option is used.
  77 +
  78 This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion thread
  79 with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to
  80 conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the
  81 beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line.
  82 +
  83 This can enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors.
  84
  85 --no-scissors::
  86         Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings.
  87
  88 <msg>::
  89         The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
  90         except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.
  91
  92 <patch>::
  93         The patch extracted from e-mail.
  94
  95 GIT
  96 ---
  97 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite