From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 23:55:09 GMT
Subject: Re: \b character escapes in CLI usage
Message-ID: <xmqqtt8g9s82.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <Z7-lbGnlzGbhrHZN@tapette.crustytoothpaste.net>

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> We already have precedent for this in core.quotePath and could easily
> use similar logic here.  That format, while using octal, which I find
> ugly and hard to read, does have the pleasant side effect that it works
> correctly with POSIX printf(1) (which I'm sure was intentional), unlike
> hex escapes.

It was intended to be "the normal C quoting":

https://lore.kernel.org/git/87ek6s0w34.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu/