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Describe the bug in handling filenames with funny characters in 'git …
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…add -i'

The interactive mode does not work with files whose names contain
characters that need C-quoting.  `core.quotepath` configuration can be
used to work this limitation around to some degree, but backslash,
double-quote and control characters will still have problems.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Teemu Likonen authored and Junio C Hamano committed Apr 2, 2008
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This lets you review what will be committed (i.e. between
HEAD and index).

Bugs
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The interactive mode does not work with files whose names contain
characters that need C-quoting. `core.quotepath` configuration can be
used to work this limitation around to some degree, but backslash,
double-quote and control characters will still have problems.

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