On 2009-02-16 23:02 (-0800), Junio C Hamano wrote:
The underlying plumbing commands are not run with -z option, so the paths
returned from them need to be unquoted as needed.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
According to my quick tests this seems to work. You may want to squash
this patch in:
diff --git i/Documentation/git-add.txt w/Documentation/git-add.txt
index 7c129cb..6c79a87 100644
--- i/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ w/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -263,13 +263,6 @@ diff::
This lets you review what will be committed (i.e. between
HEAD and index).
-Bugs
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-The interactive mode does not work with files whose names contain
-characters that need C-quoting. `core.quotepath` configuration can be
-used to work this limitation around to some degree, but backslash,
-double-quote and control characters will still have problems.
-
SEE ALSO
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linkgit:git-status[1]