[PATCH] Documentation: Link git-ls-files to core.quotePath variable.

From

Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>

Date

Feb 19, 2017, 22:05 UTC

Message-ID

<2b0ce702-60de-534b-8a86-5c7ae84060de@gmail.com>

Add a hint for script writers where additional quoting can be configured.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-ls-files.txt | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
index 446209e..19e0636 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
@@ -198,7 +198,8 @@ path. (see linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information on state)
 
 When `-z` option is not used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
 in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`,
-respectively.
+respectively. The path is also quoted according to the
+configuration variable `core.quotePath` (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
 
 
 Exclude Patterns

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