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authorLibravatar Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>2017-03-02 20:03:52 +0100
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-03-02 11:40:51 -0800
commit860cd699c285f02937a2edbdb78e8231292339a5 (patch)
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parentFirst batch after 2.12 (diff)
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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>
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@@ -322,10 +322,9 @@ When the `-z` option is given, pathnames are printed as is and
without any quoting and lines are terminated with a NUL (ASCII 0x00)
byte.
-Otherwise, all pathnames will be "C-quoted" if they contain any tab,
-linefeed, double quote, or backslash characters. In C-quoting, these
-characters will be replaced with the corresponding C-style escape
-sequences and the resulting pathname will be double quoted.
+Without the `-z` option, pathnames with "unusual" characters are
+quoted as explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath`
+(see linkgit:git-config[1]).
CONFIGURATION