logmsg_reencode: never return NULL

diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 276491223a1e4536cd7a6913b1bf1fb75f7012b0..555250dfa0272f890b6d427ff61b4ea42ba0b814 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -429,6 +429,11 @@ help ...`.
        Do not use replacement refs to replace git objects. See
        linkgit:git-replace[1] for more information.
 
+--literal-pathspecs::
+       Treat pathspecs literally, rather than as glob patterns. This is
+       equivalent to setting the `GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS` environment
+       variable to `1`.
+
 
 GIT COMMANDS
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@@ -805,6 +810,16 @@ for further details.
        as a file path and will try to write the trace messages
        into it.
 
+GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS::
+       Setting this variable to `1` will cause git to treat all
+       pathspecs literally, rather than as glob patterns. For example,
+       running `GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS=1 git log -- '*.c'` will search
+       for commits that touch the path `*.c`, not any paths that the
+       glob `*.c` matches. You might want this if you are feeding
+       literal paths to git (e.g., paths previously given to you by
+       `git ls-tree`, `--raw` diff output, etc).
+
+
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