Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 10:01:57AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Tracked paths with SP in them were cquoted in "git status --short" >> output, but untracked, ignored, and unmerged paths weren't. > > By the way, the long status output will quote paths as appropriate, but > _not_ apply this "we should quote spaces" rule. I'm not sure if that > came up in earlier discussion or not. Certainly we're free to do > whatever looks nicest to humans there, so maybe we prefer to avoid > quoting as much as possible. Yup, the long output format is strictly for human consumption and one fewer case to enclose the path in a dq-pair is good ;-).
