ng,
i.e. the backslash is interpreted as escape character. The path must
be quoted if it contains a colon, to avoid the colon from being
misinterpreted as the separator between the path and the contents, or
if the path begins or ends with a double-quote character.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The file mode is limited to a regular file, and the option may be
subject to platform-dependent command-line limits. For non-trivial
cases, write an untracked file and use <code>--add-file</code> instead.</p>
