Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Not only is the git patch format perfectly standard and accepted by other >> tools, it's much better designed than the brain-damaged syntax that GNU >> patch uses (which adds a tab and a timestamp after the filenames). In >> particular, with git patches it is easy to get filenames that have spaces >> and tabs in them right. > > What about filenames with end-of-line character in them? Is it quoted? You could have done a bit of homework yourself to find that out easily ;-). Anyway, the answer is yes. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=112927316408690 I wonder what happened to the plan to update GNU diff/patch to also emit/understand the c-style quoted paths. Paul? - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html