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

NAME
       git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message

SYNOPSIS
       git mailinfo [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n]
                      [--[no-]scissors] [--quoted-cr=<action>]
                      <msg> <patch>

DESCRIPTION
       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 am to
       create a commit. It is usually not necessary to use this command directly. See git-am(1) instead.

OPTIONS
       -k
           Usually the program removes email cruft from the Subject: header line to extract the title line for the commit log
           message. This option prevents this munging, and is most useful when used to read back git format-patch -k output.

           Specifically, the following are removed until none of them remain:

           •   Leading and trailing whitespace.

           •   Leading Re:, re:, and :.

           •   Leading bracketed strings (between [ and ], usually [PATCH]).

           Finally, runs of whitespace are normalized to a single ASCII space character.

       -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
           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 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.

       -m, --message-id
           Copy the Message-ID header at the end of the commit message. This is useful in order to associate commits with mailing
           list discussions.

       --scissors
           Remove everything in body before a scissors line (e.g. "-- >8 --"). The line represents scissors and perforation marks,
           and is used to request the reader to cut the message at that line. If that 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 be enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors.

       --no-scissors
           Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings.

       --quoted-cr=<action>
           Action when processes email messages sent with base64 or quoted-printable encoding, and the decoded lines end with a
           CRLF instead of a simple LF.

           The valid actions are:

           •   nowarn: Git will do nothing when such a CRLF is found.

           •   warn: Git will issue a warning for each message if such a CRLF is found.

           •   strip: Git will convert those CRLF to LF.

           The default action could be set by configuration option mailinfo.quotedCR. If no such configuration option has been set,
           warn will be used.

       <msg>
           The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.

       <patch>
           The patch extracted from e-mail.

CONFIGURATION
       Everything below this line in this section is selectively included from the git-config(1) documentation. The content is the
       same as what’s found there:

       mailinfo.scissors
           If true, makes git-mailinfo(1) (and therefore git-am(1)) act by default as if the --scissors option was provided on the
           command-line. When active, this features removes everything from the message body before a scissors line (i.e.
           consisting mainly of ">8", "8<" and "-").

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite

Git 2.39.2                                                   04/24/2023                                             GIT-MAILINFO(1)