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diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
index dc7d725e..ea0a0655 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ git-mailinfo(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-mailinfo - Extracts patch from a single e-mail message.
+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.