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[PATCH] Update git-applymbox documentation

From
Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
Date
Apr 16, 2007, 06:40 UTC
Message-ID
<20070416064006.GA20240@localdomain>
In-Reply-To
<20070416062024.GB19759@localdomain>

Documentation/git-applymbox.txt: updating -u documentation to include fact that it encodes to the i18n.commitencoding setting, not just utf-8. Added documentation of -n option to pass -n to git-mailinfo.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
---
 Resending due to my bad .git/config interacting with mutt to
 wipe out first line of commit message
 Documentation/git-applymbox.txt |   14 ++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt b/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt
index 95dc65a..3bc92d8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt
@@ -42,14 +42,20 @@ OPTIONS
 	and the current tree.
 
 -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
-	them.  This used to be optional but now it is the default.
+	Pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
+	The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
+	are re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
+	`i18n.commitencoding` can be used to specify project's
+	preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).  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.
 
+-n::
+	Pass `-n` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see
+	gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
+
 -c .dotest/<num>::
 	When the patch contained in an e-mail does not cleanly
 	apply, the command exits with an error message. The
-- 
1.5.1.1.98.gedb4f-dirty
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  4. Update git-am documentationAndrew Ruder, Apr 16, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2007
  6. Update git-am documentationAndrew Ruder, Apr 16, 2007
  7. Update git-applymbox documentationAndrew Ruder, Apr 16, 2007
  8. Update git-applymbox documentationAndrew Ruder, Apr 16, 2007
  9. Update git-annotate/git-blame documentationAndrew Ruder, Apr 16, 2007
  10. Alex RiesenApr 16, 2007
  11. Andrew RuderApr 16, 2007
  12. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2007
  13. Update git-annotate/git-blame documentationAndrew Ruder, Apr 17, 2007
  14. Update git-apply documentationAndrew Ruder, Apr 16, 2007
  15. Update git-archive documentationAndrew Ruder, Apr 19, 2007
  16. Update git-cherry-pick documentationAndrew Ruder, Apr 19, 2007
  17. Fix unmatched emphasis tag in git-tutorialAndrew Ruder, Apr 19, 2007
  18. Update git-config documentationAndrew Ruder, Apr 19, 2007

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