1GIT-MAILINFO(1)                   Git Manual                   GIT-MAILINFO(1)
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NAME

6       git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail
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SYNOPSIS

10       git mailinfo [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--[no-]scissors] <msg> <patch>
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DESCRIPTION

14       Reads a single e-mail message from the standard input, and writes the
15       commit log message in <msg> file, and the patches in <patch> file. The
16       author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are written out to the standard
17       output to be used by git am to create a commit. It is usually not
18       necessary to use this command directly. See git-am(1) instead.
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OPTIONS

21       -k
22           Usually the program removes email cruft from the Subject: header
23           line to extract the title line for the commit log message. This
24           option prevents this munging, and is most useful when used to read
25           back git format-patch -k output.
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27           Specifically, the following are removed until none of them remain:
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33           ·   Leading bracketed strings (between [ and ], usually [PATCH]).
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35           Finally, runs of whitespace are normalized to a single ASCII space
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38       -b
39           When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with [ and
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41           pairs whose bracketed string contains the word "PATCH".
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43       -u
44           The commit log message, author name and author email are taken from
45           the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME transfer encoding,
46           re-coded in the charset specified by i18n.commitencoding
47           (defaulting to UTF-8) by transliterating them. This used to be
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50           Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset
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53       --encoding=<encoding>
54           Similar to -u. But when re-coding, the charset specified here is
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60       --scissors
61           Remove everything in body before a scissors line. A line that
62           mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and perforation
63           (dash "-") marks is called a scissors line, and is used to request
64           the reader to cut the message at that line. If such a line appears
65           in the body of the message before the patch, everything before it
66           (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when this option is
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69           This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion
70           thread with comments and suggestions on the message you are
71           responding to, and to conclude it with a patch submission,
72           separating the discussion and the beginning of the proposed commit
73           log message with a scissors line.
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75           This can enabled by default with the configuration option
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79           Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors
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83           The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually except the
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90       Part of the git(1) suite
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