Merge branch 'rs/diff'

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
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--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -117,6 +117,18 @@ core.fileMode::
        the working copy are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT.
        See gitlink:git-update-index[1]. True by default.
 
+core.quotepath::
+       The commands that output paths (e.g. `ls-files`,
+       `diff`), when not given the `-z` option, will quote
+       "unusual" characters in the pathname by enclosing the
+       pathname in a double-quote pair and with backslashes the
+       same way strings in C source code are quoted.  If this
+       variable is set to false, the bytes higher than 0x80 are
+       not quoted but output as verbatim.  Note that double
+       quote, backslash and control characters are always
+       quoted without `-z` regardless of the setting of this
+       variable.
+
 core.autocrlf::
        If true, makes git convert `CRLF` at the end of lines in text files to
        `LF` when reading from the filesystem, and convert in reverse when