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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch>
+'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch>
DESCRIPTION
@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ OPTIONS
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