[PATCH] Documentation: Clarify core.quotePath, remove cruft in git-ls-files. Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@xxxxxxxxx> --- I have merged the best parts about quoting into the core.quotePath description and cleaned up the text in git-ls-files.txt regarding the control characters. Documentation/config.txt | 22 ++++++++++++---------- Documentation/git-ls-files.txt | 11 ++++++----- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index f4721a0..25e65ae 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -340,16 +340,18 @@ core.checkStat:: all fields, including the sub-second part of mtime and ctime. core.quotePath:: - The commands that output paths (e.g. 'ls-files', - 'diff'), when not given the `-z` option, will quote - "unusual" characters in the pathname by enclosing the - pathname in a double-quote pair and with backslashes the - same way strings in C source code are quoted. If this - variable is set to false, the bytes higher than 0x80 are - not quoted but output as verbatim. Note that double - quote, backslash and control characters are always - quoted without `-z` regardless of the setting of this - variable. + Commands that output paths (e.g. 'ls-files', 'diff'), will + quote "unusual" characters in the pathname by enclosing the + pathname in double-quotes and escaping those characters with + backslashes in the same way C escapes control characters (e.g. + `\t` for TAB, `\n` for LF, `\\` for backslash) or bytes with + values larger than 0x80 (e.g. octal `\265` for "micro"). If + this variable is set to false, bytes higher than 0x80 are not + considered "unusual" any more. Double-quotes, backslash and + control characters are always escaped regardless of the + setting of this variable. Many commands can output pathnames + completely verbatim using the `-z` option. The default value is + true. core.eol:: Sets the line ending type to use in the working directory for diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt index d2b17f2..88df561 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt @@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ OPTIONS succeed. -z:: - \0 line termination on output. + \0 line termination on output and do not quote filenames. + See OUTPUT below for more information. -x <pattern>:: --exclude=<pattern>:: @@ -192,10 +193,10 @@ the index records up to three such pairs; one from tree O in stage the user (or the porcelain) to see what should eventually be recorded at the path. (see linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information on state) -When `-z` option is not used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters -in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`, -respectively. The path is also quoted according to the -configuration variable `core.quotePath` (see linkgit:git-config[1]). +Without the `-z` option pathnamens with "unusual" characters are +quoted as explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath` +(see linkgit:git-config[1]). Using `-z` the filename is output +verbatim and the line is terminated by a NUL byte. Exclude Patterns -- 2.7.4