On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Ramsay Jones <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> 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. > > I was thinking about both ' and ", so that you could do: Yes, I understood your suggestion as such. Quoting like shells would work without breaking backward compatibility for the same reason quoting with double-quote and backslash only without supporting single-quotes would work. -- 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