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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-09-10 12:54:21 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-09-10 12:54:21 -0700
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@@ -2275,14 +2275,16 @@ people using 80-column terminals.</p></div>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
- The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message
+ Commit objects record the character 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 <code>X</code> and we are outputting in <code>X</code>, we will output the object
verbatim; this means that invalid sequences in the original
- commit may be copied to the output.
+ commit may be copied to the output. Likewise, if iconv(3) fails
+ to convert the commit, we will output the original object
+ verbatim, along with a warning.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">