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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt index 3bbc731f67..d343f040f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ character. 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 + `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 @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ 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. + used instead of the one specified by `i18n.commitEncoding` or UTF-8. -n:: Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata. @@ -72,10 +72,9 @@ conversion, even with this flag. is useful in order to associate commits with mailing list discussions. --scissors:: - Remove everything in body before a scissors line. A line that - mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and perforation - (dash "-") marks is called a scissors line, and is used to request - the reader to cut the message at that line. If such a line + 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. |