Re: [Quilt-dev] quilt corrupts a patch with space in dirname

[Matěj Cepl]

On Tue Jan 23, 2024 at 4:43 PM CET, Matěj Cepl wrote:
> It looks also similar to
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quilt/+bug/1993080, but
> I have never found anything close to the “official” statement on
> this situation from any site describing format of patches, so I
> am not really sure what is The Right Thing™ to do.

https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Unusual-File-Names.html#Unusual%20File%20Names

Oh. Does it mean that I cannot use diff/patch/quilt for managing
patches over Python (with Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/
directory)?

Best,

Matěj

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