On 2009-02-16 23:02 (-0800), Junio C Hamano wrote: > The underlying plumbing commands are not run with -z option, so the paths > returned from them need to be unquoted as needed. > > Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> According to my quick tests this seems to work. You may want to squash this patch in: diff --git i/Documentation/git-add.txt w/Documentation/git-add.txt index 7c129cb..6c79a87 100644 --- i/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ w/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -263,13 +263,6 @@ diff:: This lets you review what will be committed (i.e. between HEAD and index). -Bugs ----- -The interactive mode does not work with files whose names contain -characters that need C-quoting. `core.quotepath` configuration can be -used to work this limitation around to some degree, but backslash, -double-quote and control characters will still have problems. - SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-status[1] -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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