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diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index 996f62890..fb0b0b958 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -76,3 +76,10 @@ displayed in full, regardless of whether --abbrev or
 --no-abbrev are used, and 'parents' information show the
 true parent commits, without taking grafts nor history
 simplification into account.
+
+--encoding[=<encoding>]::
+	The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message
+	in their encoding header; this option can be used to tell the
+	command to re-code the commit log message in the encoding
+	preferred by the user.  For non plumbing commands this
+	defaults to UTF-8.