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.TH "GIT\-MAILINFO" "1" "09/19/2007" "Git 1.5.3.2" "Git Manual"
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.SH "NAME"
git\-mailinfo \- Extracts patch and authorship 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\-am to create a commit. It is usually not necessary to use this command directly. See \fBgit\-am\fR(1) instead.
.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 \-k\fR output.
.TP
\-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.
.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