git doesn't just print the path: it terminates it with a tab when the
path contains a space, and C-quotes the whole field when the path
contains anything it won't print raw — with core.quotePath, which is on
by default, that means any non-ASCII byte, so a file called café shows
up as "b/caf\303\251".
Taking the field verbatim therefore gives a path that doesn't exist, for
a whole class of perfectly ordinary file names. The quoting is Go's own
string syntax, octal escapes and all, so decoding it is a call to
strconv.Unquote.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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