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GIT-MAILINFO(1) Git Manual GIT-MAILINFO(1)
git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail
message
git mailinfo [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n]
[--[no-]scissors] [--quoted-cr=<action>]
<msg> <patch>
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.
-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.
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 feature removes everything
from the message body before a scissors line (i.e. consisting
mainly of ">8", "8<" and "-").
Part of the git(1) suite
This page is part of the git (Git distributed version control
system) project. Information about the project can be found at
⟨http://git-scm.com/⟩. If you have a bug report for this manual
page, see ⟨http://git-scm.com/community⟩. This page was obtained
from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/git/git.git⟩ on 2025-08-11. (At that time,
the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
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Git 2.51.0.rc1 2025-08-07 GIT-MAILINFO(1)
Pages that refer to this page: git(1), git-am(1), git-config(1), git-mailinfo(1), git-quiltimport(1)
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