Follow the "encode minimally" principle -- our tools, including
git-apply and git-status, can handle pathnames with embedded SP just
fine. The only problematic ones are TAB and LF, and we need to quote
the metacharacters introduced for quoting.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Following the list discussion, define two functions, quote_c_style and
unquote_c_style, to help adopting the proposed way for quoting funny
pathname letters for GNU patch. The rule is described in:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=112927316408690&w=2
Currently we do not support the leading '!', but we probably should
barf upon seeing it. Rule B4. is interpreted to require always 3
octal digits in \XYZ notation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
A useful shell safety helper sq_expand() was hidden as a static
function in diff.c. Extract it out and make it available as
sq_quote().
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
