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/
next prev parent 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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