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diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt index 74aa01a0ec..642af6e426 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt @@ -37,7 +37,10 @@ people using 80-column terminals. 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. + defaults to UTF-8. Note that if an object claims to be encoded + in `X` and we are outputting in `X`, we will output the object + verbatim; this means that invalid sequences in the original + commit may be copied to the output. --notes[=<ref>]:: Show the notes (see linkgit:git-notes[1]) that annotate the |