Update documentation for C-style quoting.

[git.git] / Documentation / git-ls-tree.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
index cdc5654..ba0438e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ Output Format
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         <mode> SP <type> SP <object> TAB <file>
 
+When `-z` option is not used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
+in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`,
+respectively.
+
 
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