Re: [PATCH 1/2 v3] git-fast-import.txt: improve documentation for quoted paths

> The documentation mentionned only newlines and double quotes as
> characters needing escaping, but the backslash also needs it. Also, the
> documentation was not clearly saying that double quotes around the file
> name were required (double quotes in the examples could be interpreted as
> part of the sentence, not part of the actual string).
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
> ---
> cut-and-paste of Peff's version, adapted from mine.
>
>  Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
> index 959e4d3..d1844ea 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
> @@ -562,8 +562,12 @@ A `<path>` string must use UNIX-style directory separators (forward
>  slash `/`), may contain any byte other than `LF`, and must not
>  start with double quote (`"`).
>  
> -If an `LF` or double quote must be encoded into `<path>` shell-style
> -quoting should be used, e.g. `"path/with\n and \" in it"`.
> +A path can use C-style string quoting; this is accepted in all cases
> +and mandatory if the filename starts with double quote or contains
> +`LF`.

> +In C-style quoting, the complete name should be surrounded with
> +double quotes, and any `LF`, backslash, or double quote characters
> +must be escaped by preceding them with a backslash (e.g.,
> +`"path/with\n, \\ and \" in it"`).
>  
>  The value of `<path>` must be in canonical form. That is it must not: