git-send-email: add --transfer-encoding option

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-send-email.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index a60776eb579e10507814c643cc292dfa99750aa9..a9efa5c2ec18776e12c5bdbb250df5b8e0f41581 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -131,6 +131,16 @@ Note that no attempts whatsoever are made to validate the encoding.
        Specify encoding of compose message. Default is the value of the
        'sendemail.composeencoding'; if that is unspecified, UTF-8 is assumed.
 
+--transfer-encoding=(7bit|8bit|quoted-printable|base64)::
+       Specify the transfer encoding to be used to send the message over SMTP.
+       7bit will fail upon encountering a non-ASCII message.  quoted-printable
+       can be useful when the repository contains files that contain carriage
+       returns, but makes the raw patch email file (as saved from a MUA) much
+       harder to inspect manually.  base64 is even more fool proof, but also
+       even more opaque.  Default is the value of the 'sendemail.transferEncoding'
+       configuration value; if that is unspecified, git will use 8bit and not
+       add a Content-Transfer-Encoding header.
+
 
 Sending
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