Re: [PATCH 1/4] apply: Clarify the description of -z

> The description of -z says that a machine-readable format will be
> used "when showing the index information". From that description,
> it is not at all clear which other option it will modify the
> behaviour of. Explicitly state that -z modifies the behavior
> of --numstat.
>
> Also correct the description of the "munging" that takes places
> in the absence of -z, namely that apart from the characters
> mentioned, double quotes are also escaped and that the pathname
> will be enclosed in double quotes if any characters are escaped.
>
> Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-apply.txt |   12 +++++++-----
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
> index 5ee8c91..4f791ee 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
> @@ -87,11 +87,13 @@ the information is read from the current index instead.
>  	rejected hunks in corresponding *.rej files.
>  
>  -z::
> -	When showing the index information, do not munge paths,
> -	but use NUL terminated machine readable format.  Without
> -	this flag, the pathnames output will have TAB, LF, and
> -	backslash characters replaced with `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`,
> -	respectively.