git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [BUG REPORT] File names that contain UTF8 characters are unnecessarily escaped in 'git status .' messages

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 30, 2021, 22:23 UTC
Message-ID
<xmqqmtsb2757.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To
<YLQHPu0bIy4qHEWP@coredump.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> Yes. If we're going to do anything, I think it would be to say "most
> terminals and programs deal with high-bit characters OK these days, so
> switching the default is more likely to fix things than break them".

Amen to that. The conservative setting was from v1.5.3 days in 2007, and it would be highly disappointing if the situation hasn't changed in the 14 years.

Previous: Bagas Sanjaya
Message 14 of 14 in “[BUG REPORT] File names that contain UTF8 characters are unnecessarily escaped in 'git status .' messages”
  1. YuriMay 26, 2021
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 26, 2021
  3. YuriMay 26, 2021
  4. Torsten BögershausenMay 27, 2021
  5. Jeff KingMay 27, 2021
  6. YuriMay 27, 2021
  7. Bagas SanjayaMay 28, 2021
  8. YuriMay 28, 2021
  9. Torsten BögershausenMay 29, 2021
  10. Jeff KingMay 30, 2021
  11. YuriMay 30, 2021
  12. Thomas GuyotMay 31, 2021
  13. Bagas SanjayaMay 31, 2021
  14. Junio C HamanoMay 30, 2021

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.