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diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt index 996c3fcc6c..e3d58cbac3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt @@ -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 @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ 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' +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. @@ -30,7 +30,12 @@ OPTIONS 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. + '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 |