X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-am.txt;h=53e81cb103c4fbd65c1c728fccd710a301eed5e4;hb=c388761c153bc3e874e75f69ff77430164c038c4;hp=910457d3b388f2c3b1dbe25f5609e3584fb4f113;hpb=c339e8e2cbfd35997ae4df6bc2dca84bddeb96e1;p=git.git

diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index 910457d3b..53e81cb10 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-am - Apply a series of patches in a mailbox
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git-am' [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--utf8] [--binary] [--3way]
+'git-am' [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--utf8 | --no-utf8] [--binary] [--3way]
          [--interactive] [--whitespace=<option>] <mbox>...
 'git-am' [--skip | --resolved]
 
@@ -29,8 +29,21 @@ OPTIONS
 	Instead of `.dotest` directory, use <dir> as a working
 	area to store extracted patches.
 
---utf8, --keep::
-	Pass `-u` and `-k` flags to `git-mailinfo` (see
+--keep::
+	Pass `-k` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
+
+--utf8::
+	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 was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
+default.   You could use `--no-utf8` to override this.
+
+--no-utf8::
+	Do not pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see
 	gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
 
 --binary::