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| author | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2021-10-29 17:10:03 -0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-10-29 14:35:59 -0700 |
| commit | 9e8fe7b1c789fee4b7d0b219180cd26de80d730e (patch) | |
| tree | 177617c82b9253ed39c10d0b39e4720b4b6e8fa7 /Documentation/pretty-options.txt | |
| parent | 0988e665e936d0c2c861dcd652bff9817e9446bf (diff) | |
| download | git-9e8fe7b1c789fee4b7d0b219180cd26de80d730e.tar.gz | |
log: document --encoding behavior on iconv() failure
We already note that we may produce invalid output when we skip calling
iconv() altogether. But we may also do so if iconv() fails, and we have
no good alternative. Let's document this to avoid surprising users.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/pretty-options.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pretty-options.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt index 54d8bb3db0..dc685be363 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt @@ -40,7 +40,9 @@ people using 80-column terminals. 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 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 quietly output the original + object verbatim. --expand-tabs=<n>:: --expand-tabs:: |