GIT-MAILINFO(1) Git Manual GIT-MAILINFO(1)
NAME
git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail
message
SYNOPSIS
git-mailinfo [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding>] <msg> <patch>
DESCRIPTION
Reading a single e-mail message from the standard input, and writes the
commit log message in <msg> file, and the patches in <patch> file. The
author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are written out to the standard
output to be used by git-am to create a commit. It is usually not
necessary to use this command directly. See git-am(1) instead.
OPTIONS
-k Usually the program cleans up the Subject: header line to
extract the title line for the commit log message, among which
(1) remove Re: or re:, (2) leading whitespaces, (3) [ up to ],
typically [PATCH], and then prepends "[PATCH] ". This flag
forbids this munging, and is most useful when used to read back
git format-patch -k output.
-u The commit log message, author name and author email are taken
from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME transfer
encoding, re-coded in UTF-8 by transliterating them. This used
to be optional but now it is the default.
Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset
conversion, even with this flag.
--encoding=<encoding>
Similar to -u but if the local convention is different from what
is specified by i18n.commitencoding, this flag can be used to
override it.
<msg> The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually except the
title line which comes from e-mail Subject.
<patch>
The patch extracted from e-mail.
AUTHOR
Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and Junio C Hamano
<junkio@cox.net>
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
GIT
Part of the git(7) suite
Git 1.5.5.6 01/12/2009 GIT-MAILINFO(1)
