Documentation: minor rewording for git-log and git-show pages.

diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index eb06afbbe0f00ac4f553e37c50eca290418a7907..e13b9cb6a354e8a5615496477768ea69edb060b3 100644 (file)
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -633,6 +633,8 @@ static char *logmsg_reencode(const struct commit *commit)
                                 : git_commit_encoding);
 
        if (!output_encoding)
+               output_encoding = "utf-8";
+       else if (!*output_encoding)
                return NULL;
        encoding = get_header(commit, "encoding");
        if (!encoding || !strcmp(encoding, output_encoding)) {