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.TH "GIT-MAILINFO" 1 "" "" ""
.SH NAME
git-mailinfo \- Extracts patch from a single e-mail message
.SH "SYNOPSIS"


\fIgit\-mailinfo\fR [\-k] [\-u | \-\-encoding=<encoding>] <msg> <patch>

.SH "DESCRIPTION"


Reading 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 to create a commit\&. It is usually not necessary to use this command directly\&.

.SH "OPTIONS"

.TP
\-k
Usually the program \fIcleans up\fR the Subject: header line to extract the title line for the commit log message, among which (1) remove \fIRe:\fR or \fIre:\fR, (2) leading whitespaces, (3) \fI[\fR up to \fI]\fR, typically \fI[PATCH]\fR, and then prepends "[PATCH] "\&. This flag forbids this munging, and is most useful when used to read back \fIgit format\-patch \-\-mbox\fR output\&.

.TP
\-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\&.

.TP
\-\-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\&.

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

.TP
<patch>
The patch extracted from e\-mail\&.

.SH "AUTHOR"


Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl\&.org> and Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox\&.net>

.SH "DOCUMENTATION"


Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git\-list <git@vger\&.kernel\&.org>\&.

.SH "GIT"


Part of the \fBgit\fR(7) suite