Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > At least attr has the same problem and is going the same direction > [1]. Cool. (I actually thought the patch was in and evidence that this > kind of backward compatibility breaking was ok, turns out the patch > has stayed around for years) > > [1] http://public-inbox.org/git/%3C20161110203428.30512-18-sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx%3E/ Seeing that again, I see this in the proposed log message: Full pattern must be quoted. So 'pat"t"ern attr' will give exactly 'pat"t"ern', not 'pattern'. I cannot tell what it is trying to say. The code suggests something quite different, i.e. a line like this "pat\"t\"ern" attr would tell us that a path that matches the pattern pat"t"ern is given 'attr'. The log message may need to be cleaned up. The update by that commit to the documentation looks alright, thoguh.