git-mailinfo
(1)
Name
git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single
e-mail message
Synopsis
git mailinfo [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch>
Description
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NAME
git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single
e-mail message
SYNOPSIS
git mailinfo [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch>
DESCRIPTION
Reads 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 removes email cruft from the
Subject: header line to extract the title line for the
commit log message. This option prevents this munging,
and is most useful when used to read back git
format-patch -k output.
Specifically, the following are removed until none of
them remain:
o Leading and trailing whitespace.
o Leading Re:, re:, and :.
o Leading bracketed strings (between [ and ], usually
[PATCH]).
Finally, runs of whitespace are normalized to a single
ASCII space character.
-b
When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed
with [ and ] pairs are stripped. This option limits the
stripping to only the pairs whose bracketed string
contains the word "PATCH".
-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 the charset specified by
i18n.commitencoding (defaulting to 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
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conversion, even with this flag.
--encoding=<encoding>
Similar to -u. But when re-coding, the charset specified
here is used instead of the one specified by
i18n.commitencoding or UTF-8.
-n
Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata.
--scissors
Remove everything in body before a scissors line. A line
that mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<")
and perforation (dash "-") marks is called a scissors
line, and is used to request the reader to cut the
message at that line. If such a line appears in the body
of the message before the patch, everything before it
(including the scissors line itself) is ignored when
this option is used.
This is useful if you want to begin your message in a
discussion thread with comments and suggestions on the
message you are responding to, and to conclude it with a
patch submission, separating the discussion and the
beginning of the proposed commit log message with a
scissors line.
This can enabled by default with the configuration
option mailinfo.scissors.
--no-scissors
Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding
mailinfo.scissors settings.
<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.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
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+---------------+--------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Availability | developer/versioning/git |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------------+
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from http://git-
core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.9.2.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://git-scm.com/.
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