Merge branch 'jn/lstree'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt b/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt
index f74c6a49b3c5d52ed662a83832c7d06915fac65b..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
@@ -42,13 +42,19 @@ OPTIONS
        and the current tree.
 
 -u::
-       By default, the commit log message, author name and
-       author email are taken from the e-mail without any
-       charset conversion, after minimally decoding MIME
-       transfer encoding.  This flag causes the resulting
-       commit to be encoded in utf-8 by transliterating them.
-       Note that the patch is always used as is without charset
-       conversion, even with this flag.
+       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