and the current tree.
-u::
- 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.
+ Pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
+ The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail
+ are re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable
+ `i18n.commitencoding` can be used to specify project's
+ preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8). 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.
+
+-n::
+ Pass `-n` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see
+ gitlink:git-mailinfo[1]).
-c .dotest/<num>::
When the patch contained in an e-mail does not cleanly