git-mailinfo documentation: clarify -u/--encoding

Instead of talking about hardcoded UTF-8, describe i18n.commitencoding
and the --encoding option, and state that they default to UTF-8.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Le <r0bertz@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
index e3d58cbac3f162cc01d8731485f220fd70fed17b..3ea5aad56c5e1cec7fc2ca01ba9b5ea6badebe2f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
@@ -40,16 +40,16 @@ 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.