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diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..31eccea5bc --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +git-mailinfo(1) +=============== + +NAME +---- +git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message + + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +'git mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] <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-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 '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. + +-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. + +<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> and +Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> + + +Documentation +-------------- +Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. + +GIT +--- +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |