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From: Marc Strapetz <marc.strapetz@syntevo.com>
To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: .gitattributes escape character?
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:13:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CD19821.2010103@syntevo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinNctmWpshBeSTzZRm6+EJ=Cjdpoaj4Aon+52_b@mail.gmail.com>

>> Is there an escape character which may be used in .gitattributes to
>> escape e.g. the space-character? Could octal-escaping help here (I
>> didn't succeed)? Thanks for any hints.
> 
> You mean escape the path part in .gitattributes? Sorry, no.
> 
> I think we can teach git about path quoting though. A leading double
> quote means the path is quoted, C-style.

But this is not supposed to work already? At least, when quoting the
whole path:

"/a file" -text

git check-attr tells me 'file" is not a valid attribute'.

Marc.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-03 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-03 12:24 .gitattributes escape character? Marc Strapetz
2010-11-03 15:47 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-11-03 17:13   ` Marc Strapetz [this message]
2010-11-03 21:03   ` Kevin Ballard
2010-11-04 13:55   ` [PATCH] attr: support quoting pathname patterns in C style Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2010-11-04 17:21     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-11-04 22:53     ` Eric Sunshine
2010-11-05  2:02       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-11-05 16:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-11-05 21:46       ` Kevin Ballard
2010-11-08 18:40         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-11-08 21:56           ` Kevin Ballard
2010-11-09  7:48             ` Johannes Sixt
2010-11-09  8:08               ` Kevin Ballard
2010-11-10  0:07             ` Junio C Hamano
2010-11-10  0:27               ` Kevin Ballard
2010-11-06  8:28       ` Marc Strapetz
2010-11-07  8:05       ` Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy

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