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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 2, 2008, 00:41 UTC
Message-ID: <7v63v1ccmb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <m3y77xtk32.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

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> 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").

Somehow nobody found an itch to improve it until now, but it seems that we found a volunteer with the itch ;-)