Subject: Re: Special characters in file name

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:57:07 -0700 (PDT)

Tajti Ákos <[email-masked]> writes:

> I have a file named "árvíz.txt" in my repository. When modify that
> file and execute git diff, the first line looks like this:
> diff --git "a/\303\241rv\303\255z.txt" "b/\303\241rv\303\255z.txt"
> 
> Is there an option that (if specified) will get git to print
> "árvíz.txt" instead of this escaped string?

Yes, there is, namely `core.quotepath`.

This probably should make it into FAQ on Git Wiki, and into git-diff
manpage...
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Jakub Narębski