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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt index e3d58cbac3..3ea5aad56c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt @@ -40,16 +40,16 @@ OPTIONS -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 UTF-8 by transliterating + 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 if the local convention is different - from what is specified by i18n.commitencoding, this flag - can be used to override it. + 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. |