On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 05:17:16PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > [1] The double-CR fix works because we strip a single CR from the end of > the line (as a convenience for CRLF systems), and then the remaining > CR is syntactically significant. But I am surprised that quoting > like: > > printf '"Icon\r"' >.gitignore > > does not seem to work. Answering myself: we don't do quoting like this in .gitignore. We allow backslashing to escape particular characters, like trailing whitespace. So in theory: Icon\\r (where "\r" is a literal CR) would work. But it doesn't, because the CRLF chomping happens separately, and CR is therefore a special case. I suspect you could not .gitignore a file with a literal LF in it at all (and I equally suspect that nobody cares in practice). -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