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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	 Yaakov Smith <Yaakov.Smith@wisetechglobal.com>,
	 "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: \b character escapes in CLI usage
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:55:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqtt8g9s82.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Z7-lbGnlzGbhrHZN@tapette.crustytoothpaste.net> (brian m. carlson's message of "Wed, 26 Feb 2025 23:36:12 +0000")

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> We already have precedent for this in core.quotePath and could easily
> use similar logic here.  That format, while using octal, which I find
> ugly and hard to read, does have the pleasant side effect that it works
> correctly with POSIX printf(1) (which I'm sure was intentional), unlike
> hex escapes.

It was intended to be "the normal C quoting":

https://lore.kernel.org/git/87ek6s0w34.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu/


  reply	other threads:[~2025-02-26 23:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-25 23:44 \b character escapes in CLI usage Yaakov Smith
2025-02-26  7:38 ` Jeff King
2025-02-26  8:09   ` Jeff King
2025-02-26 16:02     ` Junio C Hamano
2025-02-26 16:38     ` Kyle Lippincott
2025-02-26 22:06       ` Jeff King
2025-02-26 15:59   ` Junio C Hamano
2025-02-26 23:36   ` brian m. carlson
2025-02-26 23:55     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2025-02-27  0:03     ` Junio C Hamano
2025-02-27 14:06       ` General output formatting (was: Re: \b character escapes in CLI usage) Marc Branchaud
2025-02-27 17:06         ` General output formatting Junio C Hamano
2025-02-27 17:14           ` Marc Branchaud
2025-02-27 18:40             ` Junio C Hamano
2025-02-27 16:26     ` \b character escapes in CLI usage Phillip Wood

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