Re: Bug#99807: diff doesn't handle filenames with spaces (fwd)

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
> Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
>> One possibility to handle the problem in general is to adopt the
>> 'shell' quoting style of GNU ls.  This is upward compatible with
>> POSIX.  E.g.:

> Personally, I think it'd be easier to read, and simpler to implement, if
> diff just used a backslash before each odd character.

Try telling _that_ to all the guys out there using ports of diff or
patch on Microsoft-ish systems, where backslash is a directory
separator.

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