From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 15:37:28 GMT
Subject: Re: native (cyrillic) filenames in git-diff and git-log (qgit and gitk)
Message-ID: <20080524153728.GA2997@mithlond.arda.local>
In-Reply-To: <48382A11.2060308@ngs.ru>

Ilya Silvestrov wrote (2008-05-24 21:45 +0700):

> I'am looking for possibility to work with native (cyrillic) filenames
> in  git. The problem I struggle with is that I'm unable to view
> filenames in  readable form in git-log and git-diff. They are in
> escaped form, like this:
> diff --git "a/\321\200\321\203\321\201\321\201\320\272\320\270\320\271"  
> "b/\321\200\321\203\321\201\321\201\320\272\320\270\320\271"

Yes, extremely ugly. I believe setting core.quotepath to false will
help:

  $ git config --global core.quotepath false

I wonder why is this not the default?