- When showing the index information, do not munge paths,
- but use NUL terminated machine readable format. Without
- this flag, the pathnames output will have TAB, LF, and
- backslash characters replaced with `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`,
- respectively.
+ When `--numstat` has been given, do not munge pathnames,
+ but use a NUL-terminated machine-readable format.
++
+Without this option, each pathname output will have TAB, LF, double quotes,
+and backslash characters replaced with `\t`, `\n`, `\"`, and `\\`,
+respectively, and the pathname will be enclosed in double quotes if
+any of those replacements occurred.