git-mailinfo − Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message
git−mailinfo [−k] [−u | −−encoding=<encoding> | −n] <msg> <patch>
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 git-am(1) instead.
−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.
Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org[1]> and Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com[2]>
Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git−list <git@vger.kernel.org[3]>.
Part of the git(1) suite
1. |
torvalds AT osdl DOT org |
mailto:torvalds AT osdl DOT org
2. |
gitster AT pobox DOT com |
mailto:gitster AT pobox DOT com
3. |
git AT vger DOT kernel DOT org |
mailto:git AT vger DOT kernel DOT org