general improvements

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
index 64c01ba91884df1ec8e49ddc8fe852f1fb2a9425..784e9340098a1672937577670543240d8424570f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ This program dumps the given revisions in a form suitable to be piped
 into 'git fast-import'.
 
 You can use it as a human-readable bundle replacement (see
-linkgit:git-bundle[1]), or as a kind of an interactive
-'git filter-branch'.
-
+linkgit:git-bundle[1]), or as a format that can be edited before being
+fed to 'git fast-import' in order to do history rewrites (an ability
+relied on by tools like 'git filter-repo').
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ marks the same across runs.
        and will make master{tilde}4 no longer have master{tilde}5 as
        a parent (though both the old master{tilde}4 and new
        master{tilde}4 will have all the same files).  Use
-       --reference-excluded-parents to instead have the the stream
+       --reference-excluded-parents to instead have the stream
        refer to commits in the excluded range of history by their
        sha1sum.  Note that the resulting stream can only be used by a
        repository which already contains the necessary parent
@@ -129,6 +129,13 @@ marks the same across runs.
        for intermediary filters (e.g. for rewriting commit messages
        which refer to older commits, or for stripping blobs by id).
 
+--reencode=(yes|no|abort)::
+       Specify how to handle `encoding` header in commit objects.  When
+       asking to 'abort' (which is the default), this program will die
+       when encountering such a commit object.  With 'yes', the commit
+       message will be reencoded into UTF-8.  With 'no', the original
+       encoding will be preserved.
+
 --refspec::
        Apply the specified refspec to each ref exported. Multiple of them can
        be specified.