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| author |  Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com> | 2017-03-02 20:03:52 +0100 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-03-02 11:40:51 -0800 |
| commit | 860cd699c285f02937a2edbdb78e8231292339a5 (patch) | |
| tree | 9864d172cd90185f4af9c7ffcd218f8f50cf4a0e /Documentation/git-apply.txt | |
| parent | First batch after 2.12 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-860cd699c285f02937a2edbdb78e8231292339a5.tar.xz | |
Documentation: improve description for core.quotePath
Linking the description for pathname quoting to the configuration
variable "core.quotePath" removes inconstistent and incomplete
sections while also giving two hints how to deal with it: Either with
"-c core.quotePath=false" or with "-z".
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-apply.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-apply.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt index 8ddb207409..631cbd840a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt @@ -108,10 +108,9 @@ the information is read from the current index instead. When `--numstat` has been given, do not munge pathnames, but use a NUL-terminated machine-readable format. + -Without this option, each pathname output will have TAB, LF, double quotes, -and backslash characters replaced with `\t`, `\n`, `\"`, and `\\`, -respectively, and the pathname will be enclosed in double quotes if -any of those replacements occurred. +Without this option, pathnames with "unusual" characters are quoted as +explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath` (see +linkgit:git-config[1]). -p<n>:: Remove <n> leading slashes from traditional diff paths. The |