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git mailinfo — Extract patch and authorship information from a single email message. More information: <https://git

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Problem

How to use the git mailinfo command: Extract patch and authorship information from a single email message. More information: <https://git-scm.com/docs/git-mailinfo>.

Solution

git mailinfo — Extract patch and authorship information from a single email message. More information: <https://git-scm.com/docs/git-mailinfo>.

Extract the patch and author data from an email message:
git mailinfo {{message|patch}}


Extract but remove leading and trailing whitespace:
git mailinfo -k {{message|patch}}


Remove everything from the body before a scissors line (e.g. "-->* --") and retrieve the message or patch:
git mailinfo --scissors {{message|patch}}

Code Snippets

Extract the patch and author data from an email message

git mailinfo {{message|patch}}

Extract but remove leading and trailing whitespace

git mailinfo -k {{message|patch}}

Remove everything from the body before a scissors line (e.g. "-->* --") and retrieve the message or patch

git mailinfo --scissors {{message|patch}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/git mailinfo

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