Re: GNU patch close to next stable release (2)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 1, 2012, 17:58 UTC
Message-ID: <7v8vdyfqa9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAHpGcM+DkL_CCisCjF9m0j3NRJUNAdfL05T0cfLjLfVORQHrpw@mail.gmail.com>

Andreas Grünbacher <agruen@gnu.org> writes:

> * Support for double-quoted filenames in the "diff --git" format: when a
>   filename starts with a double quote, it is interpreted as a C string
>   literal.  The escape sequences \\, \", \a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v, and \ooo
>   (a three-digit octal number between 0 and 255) are recognized.

Is this also available in non-git diffs? IIRC, this extension to allow funny characters in pathnames was proposed by and discussed with Paul Eggert (listed as one of GNU diffutils maintainers at www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/) and git happened to adopt it earlier than "GNU diff" itself did.

I found it a bit odd to see this listed as one of the items needed to support "diff --git" oddity.