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By default, we remove leading [bracketed] [strings] from the Subject: header when coming up with the summary of the patch. This is because there are mailing lists etc that add their own headers to the subject, and they know they can add things in brackets. The most obvious example is the Linux kernel security list. Their emails look like Subject: [Security] [patch] random: make get_random_int() more random and other people mangle Subject: themselves in a similar way, e.g.: Subject: [PATCH -rc] [BUGFIX] x86: fix kernel_trap_sp() Subject: [BUGFIX][PATCH] fix bad page removal from LRU (Was Re: [RFC][PATCH] .. even though "fix" is more than enough cue to mark it as a [BUGFIX]. Some projects however want to keep these bracketed strings. With this option, we remove only [bracketed strings that contain word PATCH], so we will turn things like these [PATCH] [mailinfo] -b ... [PATCH v2] [mailinfo] -b ... [PATCH (v2) 1/4] [mailinfo] -b ... into [mailinfo] -b ... This lacks tests and integration to the "git am" toolchain to be useful, but it is a start. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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git-mailinfo(1)
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===============
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NAME
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----
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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] <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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-------
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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 UTF-8 by transliterating
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them. This used to be optional but now it is the default.
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+
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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 if the local convention is different
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from what is specified by i18n.commitencoding, this flag
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can be used to override it.
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-n::
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Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata.
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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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Author
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------
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Documentation
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--------------
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Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
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GIT
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---
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
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