send-email: add an auto option for transfer encoding

diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 464c15b94f391e9fb477b5258e7f318d5f2f14ca..385c7de9e2b936007e6a9a4626f40373f24f88de 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-send-email - Send a collection of patches as emails
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git send-email' [options] <file|directory|rev-list options>...
+'git send-email' [<options>] <file|directory|rev-list options>...
 'git send-email' --dump-aliases
 
 
@@ -137,15 +137,18 @@ Note that no attempts whatsoever are made to validate the encoding.
        Specify encoding of compose message. Default is the value of the
        'sendemail.composeencoding'; if that is unspecified, UTF-8 is assumed.
 
---transfer-encoding=(7bit|8bit|quoted-printable|base64)::
+--transfer-encoding=(7bit|8bit|quoted-printable|base64|auto)::
        Specify the transfer encoding to be used to send the message over SMTP.
        7bit will fail upon encountering a non-ASCII message.  quoted-printable
        can be useful when the repository contains files that contain carriage
        returns, but makes the raw patch email file (as saved from a MUA) much
        harder to inspect manually.  base64 is even more fool proof, but also
-       even more opaque.  Default is the value of the `sendemail.transferEncoding`
-       configuration value; if that is unspecified, git will use 8bit and not
-       add a Content-Transfer-Encoding header.
+       even more opaque.  auto will use 8bit when possible, and quoted-printable
+       otherwise.
++
+Default is the value of the `sendemail.transferEncoding` configuration
+value; if that is unspecified, git will use 8bit and not add a
+Content-Transfer-Encoding header.
 
 --xmailer::
 --no-xmailer::