Allow the user to control the verbosity of merge-recursive.

diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index 996f6289031a4535a29579f3111998856eb31bfd..fb0b0b95829e0fc1aa98019554ce12e9b45d1f63 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -76,3 +76,10 @@ displayed in full, regardless of whether --abbrev or
 --no-abbrev are used, and 'parents' information show the
 true parent commits, without taking grafts nor history
 simplification into account.
+
+--encoding[=<encoding>]::
+       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.