Autogenerated HTML docs for v2.12.0-264-gd6db3

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/config.txt b/config.txt
index 47603f548..5e5c2ae5f 100644
--- a/config.txt
+++ b/config.txt
@@ -350,16 +350,19 @@ core.checkStat::
 	all fields, including the sub-second part of mtime and ctime.
 
 core.quotePath::
-	The commands that output paths (e.g. 'ls-files',
-	'diff'), when not given the `-z` option, will quote
-	"unusual" characters in the pathname by enclosing the
-	pathname in a double-quote pair and with backslashes the
-	same way strings in C source code are quoted.  If this
-	variable is set to false, the bytes higher than 0x80 are
-	not quoted but output as verbatim.  Note that double
-	quote, backslash and control characters are always
-	quoted without `-z` regardless of the setting of this
-	variable.
+	Commands that output paths (e.g. 'ls-files', 'diff'), will
+	quote "unusual" characters in the pathname by enclosing the
+	pathname in double-quotes and escaping those characters with
+	backslashes in the same way C escapes control characters (e.g.
+	`\t` for TAB, `\n` for LF, `\\` for backslash) or bytes with
+	values larger than 0x80 (e.g. octal `\302\265` for "micro" in
+	UTF-8).  If this variable is set to false, bytes higher than
+	0x80 are not considered "unusual" any more. Double-quotes,
+	backslash and control characters are always escaped regardless
+	of the setting of this variable.  A simple space character is
+	not considered "unusual".  Many commands can output pathnames
+	completely verbatim using the `-z` option. The default value
+	is true.
 
 core.eol::
 	Sets the line ending type to use in the working directory for