Proposal: There's already a patch for .gitattributes [1]. To summarize: .gitattributes separates pattern and attributes by spaces, therefore spaces could not be present in patterns. There are tricks to overcome (e.g. substitute spaces with dots) but it's well.. tricky. The patch adds support for quoting full patterns. While .gitignore does not have the same problem, it'd be nice to support quoting too for a few reasons: - Keep differences between gitattr and gitignore to minimum. A hero(ine) might come and unify them some day. Don't make his/her work harder. - Is ability to put \n in patterns counted as a good point? Risks: Current patterns with leading double quote mark will be misinterpreted. Though chances are really small. Migration plan: I think a release note mentioning this is enough. No migration needed. But to be safe, we can make post-1.7.5 warn users about patterns with leading double quote. By 1.8.0, the new behavior will be used. [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/160867 -- Duy -- 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