>> 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html