allow for undeltified objects not to be reused

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
index dc7d725ea155f9eccb7ebab7df6335ae7589d483..ba18133ead23b0974b8198e25c28ccc746e99954 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ git-mailinfo(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-mailinfo - Extracts patch from a single e-mail message.
+git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-mailinfo' [-k] [-u] <msg> <patch>
+'git-mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding>] <msg> <patch>
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ writes the commit log message in <msg> file, and the patches in
 <patch> file.  The author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are
 written out to the standard output to be used by git-applypatch
 to create a commit.  It is usually not necessary to use this
-command directly.
+command directly.  See gitlink:git-am[1] instead.
 
 
 OPTIONS
@@ -33,13 +33,18 @@ OPTIONS
        format-patch --mbox' output.
 
 -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.
+       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.
++
+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.
 
 <msg>::
        The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually