Re: .gitattributes escape character?

From: Marc Strapetz <marc.strapetz@syntevo.com>
Date: Nov 3, 2010, 17:13 UTC
Message-ID: <4CD19821.2010103@syntevo.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinNctmWpshBeSTzZRm6+EJ=Cjdpoaj4Aon+52_b@mail.gmail.com>

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>> Is there an escape character which may be used in .gitattributes to
>> escape e.g. the space-character? Could octal-escaping help here (I
>> didn't succeed)? Thanks for any hints.
> 
> You mean escape the path part in .gitattributes? Sorry, no.
> 
> I think we can teach git about path quoting though. A leading double
> quote means the path is quoted, C-style.

But this is not supposed to work already? At least, when quoting the whole path:

"/a file" -text

git check-attr tells me 'file" is not a valid attribute'.

Marc.