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-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/gui.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pretty-options.txt6
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/gui.txt b/Documentation/config/gui.txt
index d30831a130..0c087fd8c9 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/gui.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/gui.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ gui.displayUntracked::
in the file list. The default is "true".
gui.encoding::
- Specifies the default encoding to use for displaying of
+ Specifies the default character encoding to use for displaying of
file contents in linkgit:git-gui[1] and linkgit:gitk[1].
It can be overridden by setting the 'encoding' attribute
for relevant files (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]).
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
index 27ddaf84a1..b3af850608 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
@@ -33,14 +33,16 @@ people using 80-column terminals.
used together.
--encoding=<encoding>::
- The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message
+ Commit objects record the character 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. 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.
+ commit may be copied to the output. Likewise, if iconv(3) fails
+ to convert the commit, we will output the original object
+ verbatim, along with a warning.
--expand-tabs=<n>::
--expand-tabs::