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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/diff-options.txt | |
| parent | 3bc53220cb2dcf709f7a027a3f526befd021d858 (diff) | |
| download | git-860cd699c285f02937a2edbdb78e8231292339a5.tar.gz | |
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/diff-options.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-options.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index d91ddbd5fe..89cc0f48de 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -192,10 +192,9 @@ ifndef::git-log[] given, do not munge pathnames and use NULs as output field terminators. endif::git-log[] + -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]). --name-only:: Show only names of changed files. |