On Sunday 26 September 2010 22:07:09 Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 09/26/2010 07:56 AM, Duncan Moore wrote:
> > 1) --quote-filenames
> > Filename quoting.
>
> I'd rather that troublsome file names always be quoted, instead of
> having an option that quotes them. Diff already has too many options.
I agree.
> The implementation can use the already-existing code to quote file
> names, taken from gnulib.
Git defines a format for filename quoting that is already pretty wide spread;
I don't think there is a reason for not using the same rules. As an added
benefit, the current alpha version of GNU patch already understands the GIT
filename quoting rules; supporting more than one quoting style would be
difficult in patch. The rules implemented right now are:
If a filename contains characters which need quoting, the entire
filename is
enclosed in double quotes, and the following escape escape sequences
are used
as in C string literals: \\, \", \a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v, and \ooo (a
three-digit octal number between 0 and 255).
Do we need more that that?
Thanks,
Andreas
