mailinfo: Do not use -u=<encoding>; say --encoding=<encoding>
authorJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:29:52 +0000 (01:29 -0800)
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:29:52 +0000 (01:29 -0800)
Specifying the value for a single letter, single dash option
parameter with equal sign looked funny, and more importantly
calling the flag to override encoding from utf-8 to something
else "-u" (obviously abbreviated from "utf-8") did not make any
sense. So spell it out.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
mailinfo.c
index dc7d725ea155f9eccb7ebab7df6335ae7589d483..8890754740e796bf5ffb815cb8ff0ec1d4b62d97 100644 (file)
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-mailinfo - Extracts patch from a single e-mail message.
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-mailinfo' [-k] [-u] <msg> <patch>
+'git-mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding>] <msg> <patch>
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -37,10 +37,17 @@ OPTIONS
        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.
+       commit to be encoded in the encoding specified by
+       i18n.commitencoding configuration (defaults to utf-8) by
+       transliterating them. 
        Note that the patch is always used as is without charset
        conversion, even with this flag.
 
+--encoding=<encoding>::
+       Similar to -u but if the local convention is different
+       from what is specified by i18n.commitencoding, this flag
+       can be used to override it.
+
 <msg>::
        The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
        except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.
index de105acaa8898b637e53b9a38ca695ec9514d817..890e3487adf65b937f9a9d1ec82d59c746bf62de 100644 (file)
@@ -717,7 +717,7 @@ static void handle_body(void)
 }
 
 static const char mailinfo_usage[] =
-       "git-mailinfo [-k] [-u] msg patch <mail >info";
+       "git-mailinfo [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding>] msg patch <mail >info";
 
 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
@@ -731,8 +731,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
                        keep_subject = 1;
                else if (!strcmp(argv[1], "-u"))
                        metainfo_charset = git_commit_encoding;
-               else if (!strncmp(argv[1], "-u=", 3))
-                       metainfo_charset = argv[1] + 3;
+               else if (!strncmp(argv[1], "--encoding=", 11))
+                       metainfo_charset = argv[1] + 11;
                else
                        usage(mailinfo_usage);
                argc--; argv++;