Re:

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 18, 2015, 21:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20150318212852.GA28860@peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20150318211716.GC3376@peff.net>

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 05:17:16PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

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> [1] The double-CR fix works because we strip a single CR from the end of
>     the line (as a convenience for CRLF systems), and then the remaining
>     CR is syntactically significant. But I am surprised that quoting
>     like:
> 
>       printf '"Icon\r"' >.gitignore
> 
>     does not seem to work.

Answering myself: we don't do quoting like this in .gitignore. We allow backslashing to escape particular characters, like trailing whitespace. So in theory:

  Icon\\r

(where "\r" is a literal CR) would work. But it doesn't, because the CRLF chomping happens separately, and CR is therefore a special case. I suspect you could not .gitignore a file with a literal LF in it at all (and I equally suspect that nobody cares in practice).

-Peff