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Re: BUG: "git add --interactive" does not work with UTF-8 filenames

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 2, 2008, 11:17 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > git-config(1):
> >
> >   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.
> >
> > Since 1.5.2.2 (I think), or at least 1.5.3, so you have new enough
> > version of git (git is now at 1.5.5-rc2).
> 
> Yes, but I do not think "add -i" unwraps the path quoting.  I think it
> should, but I do not think I bothered to.  Because it is trivial to do by
> any aspiring git hacker wannabes, I left it as an exercise to readers when
> I did the "interactive" as a quick-and-dirty hack (aka "demonstration").

By the way, the code to unwrap the path quoting can be found in gitweb as unescape() subroutine... or git-add--interactive can use '-z' switch.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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  1. Teemu LikonenApr 1, 2008
  2. Jakub NarebskiApr 1, 2008
  3. Teemu LikonenApr 1, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 2, 2008
  5. Jakub NarebskiApr 2, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 2, 2008
  7. Describe the bug about handling non-Ascii filenames in 'git add -i'Teemu Likonen, Apr 2, 2008
  8. Junio C HamanoApr 2, 2008

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