From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:57:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Special characters in file name
Message-ID: <m3aaal4cyj.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <4E60C6D0.7090609@intland.com>

Tajti Ákos <akos.tajti@intland.com> writes:

> I have a file named "árvíz.txt" in my repository. When modify that
> file and execute git diff, the first line looks like this:
> diff --git "a/\303\241rv\303\255z.txt" "b/\303\241rv\303\255z.txt"
> 
> Is there an option that (if specified) will get git to print
> "árvíz.txt" instead of this escaped string?

Yes, there is, namely `core.quotepath`.

This probably should make it into FAQ on Git Wiki, and into git-diff
manpage...
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Jakub Narębski