Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Link git-ls-files to core.quotePath variable.

[Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>]

Am 21.02.2017 um 21:48 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> 
> I was waiting for others to comment on this patch but nobody seems
> to be interested.  Which is a bit sad, as this may not be a bad
> idea.
> 
> If we refer to core.quotePath, the mention of control characters
> being quoted can also be omitted, I think, as that is part of what
> appears in the description of core.quotePath variable.
> 
> Alternatively, instead of referring to another page, we can spend
> the additional lines to say what is more interesting to most of the
> readers from that page, e.g.
> 
>     When `-z` option is not used, a pathname with "unusual" characters
>     in it is quoted by enclosing it in a double-quote pair and with
>     backslashes the same way strings in C source code are quoted.  By
>     setting core.quotePath configuration to false, the bytes whose
>     values are higher than 0x80 are output verbatim.
>

Without `-z` but with core.quotePath=false the path may still be
surrounded with double-quotes if it contains control characters (and
some more). The documentation in `core.quotePath` mentions this, your
"inline" alternative does not.

I will send second patch. :-)