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1 | git-mailinfo(1) |
| 2 | =============== | |
| 3 | ||
| 4 | NAME | |
| 5 | ---- | |
| c3f0baac | 6 | git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message |
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7 | |
| 8 | ||
| 9 | SYNOPSIS | |
| 10 | -------- | |
| 9f63892b | 11 | 'git-mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding>] <msg> <patch> |
| f85a4191 | 12 | |
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13 | |
| 14 | DESCRIPTION | |
| 15 | ----------- | |
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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 | |
| 59c8e2cb | 19 | written out to the standard output to be used by git-am |
| f85a4191 | 20 | to create a commit. It is usually not necessary to use this |
| 5cb545fa | 21 | command directly. See gitlink:git-am[1] instead. |
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22 | |
| 23 | ||
| 24 | OPTIONS | |
| 25 | ------- | |
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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 | |
| 7b1885d1 | 33 | format-patch -k' output. |
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34 | |
| 35 | -u:: | |
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36 | The commit log message, author name and author email are |
| 37 | taken from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME | |
| 38 | transfer encoding, re-coded in UTF-8 by transliterating | |
| 39 | them. This used to be optional but now it is the default. | |
| 40 | + | |
| 41 | Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset | |
| 42 | conversion, even with this flag. | |
| 7fc9d69f | 43 | |
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44 | --encoding=<encoding>:: |
| 45 | Similar to -u but if the local convention is different | |
| 46 | from what is specified by i18n.commitencoding, this flag | |
| 47 | can be used to override it. | |
| 48 | ||
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49 | <msg>:: |
| 50 | The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually | |
| 51 | except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject. | |
| 52 | ||
| 53 | <patch>:: | |
| 54 | The patch extracted from e-mail. | |
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55 | |
| 56 | ||
| 57 | Author | |
| 58 | ------ | |
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59 | Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and |
| 60 | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | |
| 61 | ||
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62 | |
| 63 | Documentation | |
| 64 | -------------- | |
| 65 | Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. | |
| 66 | ||
| 67 | GIT | |
| 68 | --- | |
| a7154e91 | 69 | Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite |
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