Commit b0db704652 (pathspec: allow querying for attributes -
2017-03-13) adds new pathspec magic 'attr' but only with
match_pathspec(). "git add" has some pathspec related code that still
does not know about 'attr' and will bail out:
$ git add ':(attr:foo)'
fatal: BUG:dir.c:1584: unsupported magic 40
A better solution would be making this code support 'attr'. But I
don't know how much work is needed (I'm not familiar with this new
magic). For now, let's simply reject this magic with a friendlier
message:
$ git add ':(attr:foo)'
fatal: :(attr:foo): pathspec magic not supported by this command: 'attr'
Reported-by: smaudet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Since Brandon is currently unreachable, let's do this for now. I
might eventually find time to go over pathspec code and see if I can
add 'attr' support to the rest of the commands, but no promise.
builtin/add.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/builtin/add.c b/builtin/add.c
index 9916498a29..0b64bcdebe 100644
--- a/builtin/add.c
+++ b/builtin/add.c
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ int cmd_add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
* Check the "pathspec '%s' did not match any files" block
* below before enabling new magic.
*/
- parse_pathspec(&pathspec, 0,
+ parse_pathspec(&pathspec, PATHSPEC_ATTR,
PATHSPEC_PREFER_FULL |
PATHSPEC_SYMLINK_LEADING_PATH,
prefix, argv);
--
2.19.0.rc0.337.ge906d732e7
