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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 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.

       -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 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.

       -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.

AUTHOR

       Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org[1]> and Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com[2]>

DOCUMENTATION

       Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org[3]>.

GIT

       Part of the git(1) suite

NOTES

	1. torvalds@osdl.org
	   mailto:torvalds@osdl.org

	2. gitster@pobox.com
	   mailto:gitster@pobox.com

	3. git@vger.kernel.org
	   mailto:git@vger.kernel.org

Git 1.7.1							    07/05/2010							   GIT-MAILINFO(1)