From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:17:18 GMT
Subject: Re: kompare won't parse git diffs
Message-ID: <7vy7u7t0ap.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <eaqpt2$ots$1@sea.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

>> Not only is the git patch format perfectly standard and accepted by other 
>> tools, it's much better designed than the brain-damaged syntax that GNU 
>> patch uses (which adds a tab and a timestamp after the filenames). In 
>> particular, with git patches it is easy to get filenames that have spaces 
>> and tabs in them right. 
>
> What about filenames with end-of-line character in them? Is it quoted?

You could have done a bit of homework yourself to find that out
easily ;-).  Anyway, the answer is yes.

	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=112927316408690

I wonder what happened to the plan to update GNU diff/patch to
also emit/understand the c-style quoted paths.  Paul?