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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index 4f3efde80c..385c7de9e2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -137,15 +137,18 @@ Note that no attempts whatsoever are made to validate the encoding. Specify encoding of compose message. Default is the value of the 'sendemail.composeencoding'; if that is unspecified, UTF-8 is assumed. ---transfer-encoding=(7bit|8bit|quoted-printable|base64):: +--transfer-encoding=(7bit|8bit|quoted-printable|base64|auto):: Specify the transfer encoding to be used to send the message over SMTP. 7bit will fail upon encountering a non-ASCII message. quoted-printable can be useful when the repository contains files that contain carriage returns, but makes the raw patch email file (as saved from a MUA) much harder to inspect manually. base64 is even more fool proof, but also - even more opaque. Default is the value of the `sendemail.transferEncoding` - configuration value; if that is unspecified, git will use 8bit and not - add a Content-Transfer-Encoding header. + even more opaque. auto will use 8bit when possible, and quoted-printable + otherwise. ++ +Default is the value of the `sendemail.transferEncoding` configuration +value; if that is unspecified, git will use 8bit and not add a +Content-Transfer-Encoding header. --xmailer:: --no-xmailer:: |