Re: git log and utf-u in filenames

Joey Hess [off-list ref] writes:

Joey Hess wrote:

quoted

And did earlier versions of git (circa 2006) perhaps not do that
escaping? I have code in ikiwiki that apparently used to work, but
is certianly not working with current git, due to this escaping.

No, I guess it's always done that, perhaps something broke on my side
in the meantime.

But it doesn't seem right somehow that gitweb, ikiwiki, and seemingly
any other program that needs to look at git log / commits and figure out
what filename is being changed needs to include their own nasty code[1] to
convert the escaped characters back to normal characters.

Well, in gitweb we could use '-z' option for git-diff-tree and git-ls-tree,
but it has its disadvantages, like having to do actual parsing record after
record instead of simplys splitting outout on end of line ("\n") characters.

Would making git-log and git-commit display de-escaped filenames be likely
to break something?

core.quotepath limits filename escaping, but you still _have_ to quote
"\n", "\t", and of course '"' and '\', if you want for filename to have
in single line in text format.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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