Ramsay Jones <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> So, at risk of annoying you, let me continue in my ignorance a little
> longer and ask: even if you have to protect all of this 'magic' from
> the shell with '/" quoting, could you not use (nested) quotes to
> protect the <value> part of an <attr>? For example:
>
> git ls-files ':(attr:whitespace="indent,trail,space",icase)'
That would be workable, I would think. Before attr:VAR=VAL
extention, supported pathspec <magic> were only single lowercase-ascii
alphabet tokens, so nobody would have used " as a part of magic. So
quting with double-quote pair would work.
You'd need to come up with a way to quote a double quote that
happens to be a part of VAL somehow, though. I think attribute
value is limited to a string with non-whitespace letters; even
though the built-in attributes that have defined meaning to the Git
itself may not use values with letters beyond [-a-zA-Z0-9,], end
users and projects can add arbitrary values within the allowed
syntax, so it is not unconceivable that some project may have a
custom attribute that lists forbidden characters in a path with
=== .gitattributes ===
*.txt forbidden=`"
that tells their documentation cannot have these letters in it, or
something like that.
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