Merge branch 'maint'

gitster · gitster · commit 6339f67fedfe · 2010-06-13T21:02:16.000-07:00
* maint:
  git-mailinfo documentation: clarify -u/--encoding
diff --git 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.
