Re: Consider escaping special characters like 'less' does

2017-10-15 Thread Joris Valette
2017-10-15 22:06 GMT+02:00 Jeff King : > Git's diff generation will never do such escaping by default, because it > means creating a patch that cannot be applied to get back the original > content. Indeed this would be a problem. That's where my knowledge of git's source code ends, but in that cas

Re: Consider escaping special characters like 'less' does

2017-10-15 Thread Joris Valette
2017-10-15 17:46 GMT+02:00 Andreas Schwab : > On Okt 15 2017, "Jason Pyeron" wrote: > >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Joris Valette >>> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2017 9:34 AM >>> To: git@vger.kernel.org >>> Subject: Consider e

Consider escaping special characters like 'less' does

2017-10-15 Thread Joris Valette
ch as possible. I would happily use 'less' all the time, but unfortunately I don't think I can. For instance, 'git add --patch', which I use quite often, prints through git's built-in output, and I miss less's features. Joris Valette.