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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]
11                      [--[no-]scissors] [--quoted-cr=<action>]
12                      <msg> <patch>
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DESCRIPTION

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

22       -k
23           Usually the program removes email cruft from the Subject: header
24           line to extract the title line for the commit log message. This
25           option prevents this munging, and is most useful when used to read
26           back git format-patch -k output.
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28           Specifically, the following are removed until none of them remain:
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30           •   Leading and trailing whitespace.
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36           Finally, runs of whitespace are normalized to a single ASCII space
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39       -b
40           When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with [ and
41           ] pairs are stripped. This option limits the stripping to only the
42           pairs whose bracketed string contains the word "PATCH".
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44       -u
45           The commit log message, author name and author email are taken from
46           the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME transfer encoding,
47           re-coded in the charset specified by i18n.commitEncoding
48           (defaulting to UTF-8) by transliterating them. This used to be
49           optional but now it is the default.
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51           Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset
52           conversion, even with this flag.
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54       --encoding=<encoding>
55           Similar to -u. But when re-coding, the charset specified here is
56           used instead of the one specified by i18n.commitEncoding or UTF-8.
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58       -n
59           Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata.
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61       -m, --message-id
62           Copy the Message-ID header at the end of the commit message. This
63           is useful in order to associate commits with mailing list
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66       --scissors
67           Remove everything in body before a scissors line (e.g. "-- >8 --").
68           The line represents scissors and perforation marks, and is used to
69           request the reader to cut the message at that line. If that line
70           appears in the body of the message before the patch, everything
71           before it (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when this
72           option is used.
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74           This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion
75           thread with comments and suggestions on the message you are
76           responding to, and to conclude it with a patch submission,
77           separating the discussion and the beginning of the proposed commit
78           log message with a scissors line.
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80           This can be enabled by default with the configuration option
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83       --no-scissors
84           Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors
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87       --quoted-cr=<action>
88           Action when processes email messages sent with base64 or
89           quoted-printable encoding, and the decoded lines end with a CRLF
90           instead of a simple LF.
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96           •   warn: Git will issue a warning for each message if such a CRLF
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101           The default action could be set by configuration option
102           mailinfo.quotedCR. If no such configuration option has been set,
103           warn will be used.
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105       <msg>
106           The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually except the
107           title line which comes from e-mail Subject.
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110           The patch extracted from e-mail.
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CONFIGURATION

113       Everything below this line in this section is selectively included from
114       the git-config(1) documentation. The content is the same as what’s
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117       mailinfo.scissors
118           If true, makes git-mailinfo(1) (and therefore git-am(1)) act by
119           default as if the --scissors option was provided on the
120           command-line. When active, this feature removes everything from the
121           message body before a scissors line (i.e. consisting mainly of
122           ">8", "8<" and "-").
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GIT

125       Part of the git(1) suite
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