Andreas Grünbacher <agr...@gnu.org> writes: > * Support for double-quoted filenames in the "diff --git" format: when a > filename starts with a double quote, it is interpreted as a C string > literal. The escape sequences \\, \", \a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v, and \ooo > (a three-digit octal number between 0 and 255) are recognized.
Is this also available in non-git diffs? IIRC, this extension to allow funny characters in pathnames was proposed by and discussed with Paul Eggert (listed as one of GNU diffutils maintainers at www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/) and git happened to adopt it earlier than "GNU diff" itself did. I found it a bit odd to see this listed as one of the items needed to support "diff --git" oddity. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
