NAME
git-mailinfo - Extracts patch 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-applypatch to create a commit. It is usually not
necessary to use this command directly.
OPTIONS
- -k
- Usually the program cleans up the Subject: header line
to extract the title line for the commit log message, among which
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 --mbox
output.
- -u
- By default, the commit log message, author name and author
email are taken from the e-mail without any charset conversion,
after minimally decoding MIME transfer encoding. This flag causes
the resulting commit to be encoded in the encoding specified by
i18n.commitencoding configuration (defaults to utf-8) by
transliterating them. 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.
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 (7) suite