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The point of these sections is generally to:
1. Give credit where it is due.
2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or
file bug reports.
But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they
are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer
can be gotten through shortlog or blame. For (2), the
correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you
wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and
incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody
useless.
So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except
git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list
for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section
to give credit to the major contributors and point to
shortlog and blame for more information.
Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can
follow that to the main git manpage.
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git-mailinfo(1)
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NAME
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git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch>
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DESCRIPTION
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-----------
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Reads a single e-mail message from the standard input, and
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writes the commit log message in <msg> file, and the patches in
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<patch> file. The author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are
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written out to the standard output to be used by 'git am'
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to create a commit. It is usually not necessary to use this
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command directly. See linkgit:git-am[1] instead.
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OPTIONS
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-k::
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Usually the program 'cleans up' the Subject: header line
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to extract the title line for the commit log message,
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among which (1) remove 'Re:' or 're:', (2) leading
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whitespaces, (3) '[' up to ']', typically '[PATCH]', and
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then prepends "[PATCH] ". This flag forbids this
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munging, and is most useful when used to read back
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'git format-patch -k' output.
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-b::
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When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with '['
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and ']' pairs are stripped. This option limits the stripping to
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only the pairs whose bracketed string contains the word "PATCH".
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-u::
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The commit log message, author name and author email are
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taken from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME
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transfer encoding, re-coded in the charset specified by
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i18n.commitencoding (defaulting to UTF-8) by transliterating
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them. This used to be optional but now it is the default.
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Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset
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conversion, even with this flag.
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--encoding=<encoding>::
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Similar to -u. But when re-coding, the charset specified here is
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used instead of the one specified by i18n.commitencoding or UTF-8.
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-n::
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Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata.
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--scissors::
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Remove everything in body before a scissors line. A line that
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mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and perforation
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(dash "-") marks is called a scissors line, and is used to request
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the reader to cut the message at that line. If such a line
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appears in the body of the message before the patch, everything
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before it (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when
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this option is used.
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This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion thread
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with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to
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conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the
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beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line.
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This can enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors.
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--no-scissors::
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Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings.
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<msg>::
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The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
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except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.
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<patch>::
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The patch extracted from e-mail.
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GIT
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---
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
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