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1 | git-mailinfo(1) |
| 2 | =============== | |
| 3 | ||
| 4 | NAME | |
| 5 | ---- | |
| 7bd7f280 | 6 | git-mailinfo - Extracts patch 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 | |
| 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. | |
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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 | |
| 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 | |
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40 | commit to be encoded in the encoding specified by |
| 41 | i18n.commitencoding configuration (defaults to utf-8) by | |
| 42 | transliterating them. | |
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43 | Note that the patch is always used as is without charset |
| 44 | conversion, even with this flag. | |
| 7fc9d69f | 45 | |
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46 | --encoding=<encoding>:: |
| 47 | Similar to -u but if the local convention is different | |
| 48 | from what is specified by i18n.commitencoding, this flag | |
| 49 | can be used to override it. | |
| 50 | ||
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51 | <msg>:: |
| 52 | The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually | |
| 53 | except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject. | |
| 54 | ||
| 55 | <patch>:: | |
| 56 | The patch extracted from e-mail. | |
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57 | |
| 58 | ||
| 59 | Author | |
| 60 | ------ | |
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61 | Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and |
| 62 | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | |
| 63 | ||
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64 | |
| 65 | Documentation | |
| 66 | -------------- | |
| 67 | Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. | |
| 68 | ||
| 69 | GIT | |
| 70 | --- | |
| a7154e91 | 71 | Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite |
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