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diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0947084140 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +git-mailinfo(1) +=============== + +NAME +---- +git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message + + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--[no-]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 linkgit: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: ++ +-- +* Leading and trailing whitespace. + +* Leading `Re:`, `re:`, and `:`. + +* 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 +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. + +-m:: +--message-id:: + Copy the Message-ID header at the end of the commit message. This + is useful in order to associate commits with mailing list discussions. + +--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 linkgit:git[1] suite |