[PATCH] Update git-applymbox documentation
From: Andrew Ruder <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:04
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Documentation/git-applymbox.txt: updating -u documentation to include fact that it encodes to the i18n.commitencoding setting, not just utf-8. Added documentation of -n option to pass -n to git-mailinfo. Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <redacted> --- Resending due to my bad .git/config interacting with mutt to wipe out first line of commit message Documentation/git-applymbox.txt | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt b/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt
index 95dc65a..3bc92d8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt@@ -42,14 +42,20 @@ OPTIONS and the current tree. -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 - them. This used to be optional but now it is the default. + 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 apply, the command exits with an error message. The
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