git-mailinfo - Extracts patch from a single e-mail message
git-mailinfo [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding>] <msg> <patch>
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.
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 --mbox output.
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.
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.
Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
Part of the git(7) suite