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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-03-12 23:21:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-03-12 23:21:37 -0700 |
| commit | ff3898649be897fa397b65616ec95377147ae096 (patch) | |
| tree | e39d31bf1c50dd3961c27181a87c979c06344f49 /Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt | |
| parent | 60f335b87f005c5f6c2eee1787eed9037b90c053 (diff) | |
| parent | 860cd699c285f02937a2edbdb78e8231292339a5 (diff) | |
| download | git-ff3898649be897fa397b65616ec95377147ae096.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'ah/doc-ls-files-quotepath'
Documentation for "git ls-files" did not refer to core.quotePath
* ah/doc-ls-files-quotepath:
Documentation: improve description for core.quotePath
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt index d2a7ff56e8..231105cff4 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt @@ -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. |