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 ----------- 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 '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