Clarify and correct -z

diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
index 5ee8c91f2d0a376bf755f0802825ae184cea2a28..0156ca9112255d50f94680f6b72b1e8395f37b3e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
@@ -87,11 +87,13 @@ the information is read from the current index instead.
        rejected hunks in corresponding *.rej files.
 
 -z::
-       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.
 
 -p<n>::
        Remove <n> leading slashes from traditional diff paths. The