On Nov 8, 2010, at 11:48 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Am 11/8/2010 22:56, schrieb Kevin Ballard: >> Basically what I'm trying to say is, we already break one particular >> "rather rare" setup. I would love to come up with a solution that supports >> both setups, but I don't know if one exists outside of using a config >> variable to control whether git attribute patterns support quoting (a solution >> I am not particularly fond of for this case). > > Can we perhaps have a pseudo-attribute 'quoted-names' that is to be used > like this: > > * quoted-names > "file 1" binary > file.1 -diff > > Its meaning would be that the remainder of the current .gitattributes file > is to be parsed with C style path quoting enabled. The glob given with > this attribute is irrelevant and ignored. > > I didn't check whether old gits would ignore this unknown attribute. This would certainly solve the regression issue, but from the perspective of a brand new user of git this would make absolutely no sense and would be a huge wart upon consistency. -Kevin Ballard-- 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