-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.
