From: Junio C Hamano
- 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.