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From: "Krzysztof Żelechowski" <giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl>
To: Christopher Yeleighton via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Cc: Christopher Yeleighton <ne01026@shark.2a.pl>
Subject: [PATCH v2] pretty-options.txt: describe supported encoding
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 13:51:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2247912.lYO0ccLKhl@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0877bb5d-da4b-125d-7beb-c3138903f468@gmail.com>

git log recognises only system encodings supported by iconv(1), but not 
POSIX character maps used by iconv(1p). Document it.

Signed-off-by:  <ne01026@shark.2a.pl>

diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-
options.txt
index 27ddaf84a19..4f8376d681b 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
@@ -36,9 +36,13 @@ people using 80-column terminals.
        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. Note that if an object claims to be encoded
-       in `X` and we are outputting in `X`, we will output the object
+       preferred by the user.
+       The encoding must be a system encoding supported by iconv(1),
+       otherwise this option will be ignored.
+       POSIX character maps used by iconv(1p) are not supported.
+       For non-plumbing commands this defaults to UTF-8.
+       Note that if an object claims to be encoded in `X`
+       and we are outputting in `X`, we shall output the object
        verbatim; this means that invalid sequences in the original
        commit may be copied to the output.
 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-27 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-26 21:34 [PATCH] pretty-options.txt: describe supported encoding Christopher Yeleighton via GitGitGadget
2021-08-27 10:46 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-08-27 11:47   ` Krzysztof Żelechowski
2021-08-27 11:51   ` Krzysztof Żelechowski [this message]
2021-08-27 17:03     ` [PATCH v2] " Junio C Hamano
2021-08-27 18:03       ` Jeff King
2021-08-27 23:20       ` Krzysztof Żelechowski

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