Stupid quoting...

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Hi,

what is the point in quoting file names and their characters in
git-diff's output?  And what is the recommended way of undoing the
damage?

I have something like

git-diff -M -C --name-status -r master^ master | {
    while read -r flag name
    do
	case "$name" in *\\[0-3][0-7][0-7]*)
		name=$(echo -e $(echo "$name"|sed 's/\\\([0-3][0-7][0-7]\)/\\0\1/g;s/\\\([^0]\)/\\\\\1/g'))
	esac
        [...]

in order to get through the worst with utf-8 file names, and it is a
complete nuisance (double quotemarks are treated later).

Is there any utility or pipe or invocation that can take a sequence of
filenames as printed by git and turn them back into what they actually
were in the first place?

-- 
David Kastrup