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diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt index ea0a06557f..51dc325748 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt @@ -3,22 +3,23 @@ git-mailinfo(1) NAME ---- -git-mailinfo - Extracts patch from a single e-mail message +git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding>] <msg> <patch> +[verse] +'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch> DESCRIPTION ----------- -Reading a single e-mail message from the standard input, and +Reads 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-applypatch +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. +command directly. See linkgit:git-am[1] instead. OPTIONS @@ -29,24 +30,49 @@ OPTIONS 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 --mbox' output. + munging, and is most useful when used to read back + 'git format-patch -k' output. + +-b:: + When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with '[' + and ']' pairs are stripped. This option limits the stripping to + only the pairs whose bracketed string contains the word "PATCH". -u:: - By default, the commit log message, author name and - author email are taken from the e-mail without any - charset conversion, after minimally decoding MIME - transfer encoding. This flag causes the resulting - commit to be encoded in the encoding specified by - i18n.commitencoding configuration (defaults to utf-8) by - transliterating them. - Note that the patch is always used as is without charset - conversion, even with this flag. + 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 the charset specified by + i18n.commitencoding (defaulting to 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. + Similar to -u. But when re-coding, the charset specified here is + used instead of the one specified by i18n.commitencoding or UTF-8. + +-n:: + Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata. + +--scissors:: + Remove everything in body before a scissors line. A line that + mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and perforation + (dash "-") marks is called a scissors line, and is used to request + the reader to cut the message at that line. If such a line + appears in the body of the message before the patch, everything + before it (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when + this option is used. ++ +This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion thread +with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to +conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the +beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line. ++ +This can enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors. + +--no-scissors:: + Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings. <msg>:: The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually @@ -55,18 +81,6 @@ OPTIONS <patch>:: The patch extracted from e-mail. - -Author ------- -Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and -Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> - - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. - GIT --- -Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite - +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |