On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 06:48:18AM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote: > > I guess by quoting you meant: > > > > echo '"trailing "' >.gitignore > > This makes " special. If we follow shell convention then things > between ".." should be literal (e.g. "*" is no longer a wildcard). We > don't support it yet. So I rather go with backslash as it adds less > code. For some reason I was thinking that we already handled double-quotes here (as we do in other places where quoting is optional). But it looks like we don't currently, so yeah, I don't think it is worth adding due to the potential confusion. Backslash-escaping was what I had originally assumed you meant, and it was, so we are all on the same page (the patch was just broken. ;) ). -Peff -- 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