Merge branch 'jn/lstree'

[git.git] / Documentation / git-applymbox.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt b/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt
index 95dc65a583552d4f7e2d1fa34c448832c66a3353..ea919ba5d7e8a01cd2e5aa9116ff4bbcf9ddd1ea 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ OPTIONS
        whitespaces, (3) '[' up to ']', typically '[PATCH]', and
        then prepends "[PATCH] ".  This flag forbids this
        munging, and is most useful when used to read back 'git
-       format-patch --mbox' output.
+       format-patch -k' output.
 
 -m::
        Patches are applied with `git-apply` command, and unless
@@ -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