From: Joseph Strauss Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 17:27:24 GMT Subject: RE: Bug - Status - Space in Filename Message-ID: <655aaa9d2abf4be1b6ade0574d88c999@EXMBX01B.bhphotovideo.local> I believe I have found a bug in the way git status -s lists filenames. According to the documentation: The fields (including the ->) are separated from each other by a single space. If a filename contains whitespace or other nonprintable characters, that field will be quoted in the manner of a C string literal: surrounded by ASCII double quote (34) characters, and with interior special characters backslash-escaped. While this is true in most situations, it does not seem to apply to merge conflicts. When a file has merge conflicts I am getting the following: $ git status -s UU some/path/with space/in/the/name M  "another/path/with space/in/the/name " I found the same problem for the following versions: . git version 2.15.0.windows.1 . git version 2.10.0 Joseph Kalman Strauss Lifecycle Management Engineer B&H Photo 212-239-7500 x2212 josephst@bhphoto.com