On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This v6 contains small fixes pointed in v5. > > In v5, Patrick and Junio were discussing about quoting the values in the > key=value format using `quote_c_style` [1]. Given that it wouldn't affect > this patchset and it's a simple change that can be done later, I didn't > change it and I'll leave for further discussion when I start to deal > with paths. The counterargument to this stance is that if you employ `quote_c_style` from the onset and document it, then if a future version of Git does start outputting values containing "funny" characters for properties which previously did not emit such values (this isn't limited to paths), then consumers who heeded the documentation won't find their tooling breaking suddenly. Tooling may break for consumers who did not heed the documentation, but that will be due to their own shortsightedness, not due to the Git project failing to care about compatibility between versions. For this reason, I'm of the opinion that `quote_c_style` should be used and documented even at this very early stage.
