Merge branch 'jk/maint-snprintf-va-copy' into maint

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
index e3d58cbac3f162cc01d8731485f220fd70fed17b..51dc3257486b07edaec71fe98fed6533e17e1a77 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
+[verse]
 'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch>
 
 
@@ -40,16 +41,16 @@ 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.
@@ -80,17 +81,6 @@ This can enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors.
 <patch>::
        The patch extracted from e-mail.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
-Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite