Re: Git bug. gitattributes' pattern does not respect spaces in the filenames

From: Alexey Shumkin <alex.crezoff@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 10, 2011, 15:51 UTC
Message-ID: <20111010195145.0d1fc966@ashu.dyn.rarus.ru>
In-Reply-To: <7vipnwooh1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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> Alexey Shumkin <Alex.Crezoff@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > As far as cp1251 and UTF-8 files are in different folders,
> > it is logically enough to set pattern like
> >
> > <folder with a UTF-8-xmls>/*.xml diff=utf8-to-cp1251
> >
> > for the UTF-8 files.
> 
> ... IN the directory that needs conversion and not in the other one
> or at the toplevel. Problem solved, no?

Oh! yes! solved! thanks! I did not take into account that each folder can have its own .gitattributes-file

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> 
> Another idea may be to use "?" in the directory part of the
> pattern. Unless the directory structure is sick enough to have these
> directory names:
> 
> 	dir-1/utf8-file.xml
>         dir 1/cp1251-file.xml
> 
> dir?1/*.xml would match the matter, so...

hmm... I like more the case above :) but TMTOWTDI principle rulez

thanks again