Am 21.02.2017 um 21:48 schrieb Junio C Hamano: > > I was waiting for others to comment on this patch but nobody seems > to be interested. Which is a bit sad, as this may not be a bad > idea. > > If we refer to core.quotePath, the mention of control characters > being quoted can also be omitted, I think, as that is part of what > appears in the description of core.quotePath variable. > > Alternatively, instead of referring to another page, we can spend > the additional lines to say what is more interesting to most of the > readers from that page, e.g. > > When `-z` option is not used, a pathname with "unusual" characters > in it is quoted by enclosing it in a double-quote pair and with > backslashes the same way strings in C source code are quoted. By > setting core.quotePath configuration to false, the bytes whose > values are higher than 0x80 are output verbatim. > Without `-z` but with core.quotePath=false the path may still be surrounded with double-quotes if it contains control characters (and some more). The documentation in `core.quotePath` mentions this, your "inline" alternative does not. I will send second patch. :-)