git-mailinfo(1) =============== NAME ---- git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message SYNOPSIS -------- 'git-mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=] DESCRIPTION ----------- Reading a single e-mail message from the standard input, and writes the commit log message in file, and the patches in 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 gitlink: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=:: 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. :: The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject. :: The patch extracted from e-mail. Author ------ Written by Linus Torvalds and Junio C Hamano Documentation -------------- Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list . GIT --- Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite