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 'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch>
  12
  13
  14 DESCRIPTION
  15 -----------
  16 Reads 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 am'
  20 to create a commit.  It is usually not necessary to use this
  21 command directly.  See linkgit:git-am[1] instead.
  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
  33         'git format-patch -k' output.
  34
  35 -b::
  36         When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with '['
  37         and ']' pairs are stripped.  This option limits the stripping to
  38         only the pairs whose bracketed string contains the word "PATCH".
  39
  40 -u::
  41         The commit log message, author name and author email are
  42         taken from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME
  43         transfer encoding, re-coded in the charset specified by
  44         i18n.commitencoding (defaulting to UTF-8) by transliterating
  45         them.  This used to be optional but now it is the default.
  46 +
  47 Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset
  48 conversion, even with this flag.
  49
  50 --encoding=<encoding>::
  51         Similar to -u.  But when re-coding, the charset specified here is
  52         used instead of the one specified by i18n.commitencoding or UTF-8.
  53
  54 -n::
  55         Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata.
  56
  57 --scissors::
  58         Remove everything in body before a scissors line.  A line that
  59         mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and perforation
  60         (dash "-") marks is called a scissors line, and is used to request
  61         the reader to cut the message at that line.  If such a line
  62         appears in the body of the message before the patch, everything
  63         before it (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when
  64         this option is used.
  65 +
  66 This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion thread
  67 with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to
  68 conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the
  69 beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line.
  70 +
  71 This can enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors.
  72
  73 --no-scissors::
  74         Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings.
  75
  76 <msg>::
  77         The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
  78         except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.
  79
  80 <patch>::
  81         The patch extracted from e-mail.
  82
  83 GIT
  84 ---
  85 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite