Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> The only downside is that it is technically a regression if somebody was
> using gitattributes for the bizarrely named file "symlink:". It seems
> pretty unlikely, but possibly we should be carving out a syntactic
> namespace like:
>
> ^[a-z]+:
>
> or even:
>
> ^[a-z]+(=[^:]*)?:
Or even '^:[a-z]+(=[^,=])?(,[a-z]+(=[^,=])?)*:' to
(1) always have some special character at the beginning, to limit the
extent of the damage to existing funny pathnames (i.e. to collide
your pathname must begin with such a special character). This also
has a nice side effect of making it clear that something special is
going on; and
(2) allow more than one such special on the line, comma-separated.
But that is just a small bikeshed. Other than that, I like what Michael
and you are aiming for (I am only commenting on the general direction at
this moment, as I haven't looked at the patch at all yet).
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