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| author | Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com> | 2017-03-02 22:03:52 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-03-02 22:40:51 +0300 |
| commit | 860cd699c285f02937a2edbdb78e8231292339a5 (patch) | |
| tree | 9864d172cd90185f4af9c7ffcd218f8f50cf4a0e /Documentation/git-status.txt | |
| parent | 3bc53220cb2dcf709f7a027a3f526befd021d858 (diff) | |
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-status.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-status.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt index 725065ef2d..ba873657cf 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt @@ -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 |