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6 git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail
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10 git-mailinfo [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding>] <msg> <patch>
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13 Reading a single e-mail message from the standard input, and writes the
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21 Usually the program cleans up the Subject: header line to extract
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23 Re: or re:, (2) leading whitespaces, (3) [ up to ], typically
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25 munging, and is most useful when used to read back git format-patch
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43 The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually except the
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50 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and Junio C Hamano
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54 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
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