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@@ -76,3 +76,10 @@ displayed in full, regardless of whether --abbrev or
--no-abbrev are used, and 'parents' information show the
true parent commits, without taking grafts nor history
simplification into account.
+
+--encoding[=<encoding>]::
+ The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message
+ in their encoding header; this option can be used to tell the
+ command to re-code the commit log message in the encoding
+ preferred by the user. For non plumbing commands this
+ defaults to UTF-8.