From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:23:12 GMT Subject: Re: filenames with " b" in them create confusing git diff-tree output Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v4pl2v1lf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.pobox.com> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Your example, "a/test b/foo" vs "b/test b/foo", can be and IS > parsed unambiguously by git-apply (you can try "git apply > --stat" your example). IOW, the code to correctly handle it > already exists ;-) Well, in all fairness, I *did* hate having to write the code to handle all the name handling in git-apply. Escaping whitespace (or at least giving the _option_ to do so) might well be a good way to not have to be as smart as git-apply is. git-apply didn't have that option, since git-apply has as one primary motivation the need to be able to handle patches that come from non-git sources, so git-apply goes to quite some extreme lengths to try to make sense of an inherently rather ambiguous format (that the git diffs then *made* unambiguous, but using pretty subtle rules in order to stay compatible). Some maybe we should have some generic method of asking for any filename to be quoted in particular ways? Linus