"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> writes: > From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> > >> I am not sure what you are asking. Is this the command you are >> looking for? >> >> $ grep -e "^[[*]" whats-cooking.txt >> > Ah, thanks. > > It does presume that one has extracted the email to the text file, > which is easier on some systems and mail clients than others ;-) Perhaps you would want to find an e-mail client that can handle text files better, then? ;-) If you are cloning and following along my tree from one of these places: git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ git://github.com/git/git.git/ the 'todo' branch in these repositories keeps track of the whats-cooking.txt report (among other things), so you can also: $ git cat-file -p origin/todo:whats-cooking.txt | grep -e "^[[*]" to get the same effect.