From 860cd699c285f02937a2edbdb78e8231292339a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Heiduk Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 20:03:52 +0100 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-apply.txt | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/git-apply.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt index 8ddb207409..631cbd840a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt @@ -108,10 +108,9 @@ the information is read from the current index instead. When `--numstat` has been given, do not munge pathnames, but use a NUL-terminated machine-readable format. + -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]). -p:: Remove leading slashes from traditional diff paths. The -- cgit v1.2.3