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authorAndreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>2017-03-02 20:03:52 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-03-02 11:40:51 -0800
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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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@@ -53,10 +53,9 @@ The index line includes the SHA-1 checksum before and after the change.
The <mode> is included if the file mode does not change; otherwise,
separate lines indicate the old and the new mode.
-3. TAB, LF, double quote and backslash characters in pathnames
- are represented as `\t`, `\n`, `\"` and `\\`, respectively.
- If there is need for such substitution then the whole
- pathname is put in double quotes.
+3. Pathnames with "unusual" characters are quoted as explained for
+ the configuration variable `core.quotePath` (see
+ linkgit:git-config[1]).
4. All the `file1` files in the output refer to files before the
commit, and all the `file2` files refer to files after the commit.