Junio C Hamano, Sat, Oct 08, 2005 01:44:48 +0200: > > Junio C Hamano, Fri, Oct 07, 2005 21:35:19 +0200: > >> I have not made up my mind on the exact choice of the quoting > >> convention. We could say '///' instead of '//', for example, or > >> even '//{LF}//' instead of '//0A' proposed above. One thing I > >> am trying to avoid is "foo\nbar", which I suspect would be > >> unfriendly to the Cygwin folks. > > > > Being unhappy one of them, I think I'd better manage (even if by > > postprocessing the output). > > > > Please, don't make the common case ugly just because of that platform > > (insanely broken anyway). > > You really have to realize that having LF and TAB in filenames > are *NOT* the common case, no matter which platform you are > talking about. > Yes, but "//" in a path is quite common. Even "///" is not uncommon. How about copy ls' approach were possible? -b, --escape, --quoting-style=escape Quote nongraphic characters in file names using alphabetic and octal backslash sequences like those used in C. This option is the same as -Q except that filenames are not surrounded by dou- ble-quotes. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sat Oct 08 16:47:13 2005
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